Bill Text: TX HB953 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain contributions by an open-enrollment charter school to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-19 - Co-sponsor authorized [HB953 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB953-Introduced.html

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86R3358 TSR-D
By: King of Hemphill H.B. No. 953

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain contributions by an open-enrollment charter
school to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 825.405, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (b), (e), and (f)
to read as follows:
(a-1) For members who are employed by an open-enrollment
charter school and who would be entitled to a minimum salary under
Section 21.402, Education Code, if employed by a school district,
the charter school shall pay the state's contribution on the
portion of the member's salary that exceeds the applicable
statutory minimum salary under that section.
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a) [this section]:
(1) the statutory minimum salary for certain school
personnel under Section 21.402, Education Code, is the salary
provided by that section multiplied by the cost of education
adjustment applicable under Section 42.102, Education Code, to the
district in which the member is employed; and
(2) the statutory minimum salary for members who would
have been entitled to the minimum salary for certain school
personnel under former Section 16.056, Education Code, as that
section existed on January 1, 1995, is a minimum salary computed in
the same manner as the minimum salary for certain school personnel
under Section 21.402, Education Code, multiplied by the cost of
education adjustment applicable under Section 42.102, Education
Code, to the district in which the member is employed.
(e) After the end of each school year, the retirement system
shall certify to the commissioner of education:
(1) the names of any employers [employing districts]
that have failed to remit, within the period required by Section
825.408, all contributions required under this section for the
school year; and
(2) the amounts of the unpaid contributions.
(f) If the commissioner of education receives a
certification under Subsection (e), the commissioner shall direct
the comptroller of public accounts to withhold the amount
certified, plus interest computed at the rate and in the manner
provided by Section 825.408, from the first state money payable to
the employer [school district]. The amount withheld shall be
deposited to the credit of the appropriate accounts of the
retirement system.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
school year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.