Bill Text: TX SB37 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to stipends for certain public school teachers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-13 - Filed [SB37 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB37-Introduced.html
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By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 37 |
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relating to stipends for certain public school teachers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.4023 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.4023. ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION. (a) A classroom | ||
teacher is entitled to: | ||
(1) an annual stipend of $500 if the teacher has at | ||
least three years of classroom experience; and | ||
(2) an annual stipend of $500 if the teacher serves as | ||
a certified teacher in a subject area designated by the | ||
commissioner as a teacher shortage area. | ||
(b) A stipend a teacher receives under this section: | ||
(1) is in addition to the regular salary to which a | ||
teacher is otherwise entitled under the district's salary schedule; | ||
and | ||
(2) is not considered in determining whether the | ||
district is paying the teacher the minimum monthly salary under | ||
Section 21.402. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.2513(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district, including a school district that is | ||
otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled | ||
to state aid in an amount equal to the sum of: | ||
(1) the product of $500 multiplied by the number of | ||
full-time district employees, other than administrators or | ||
employees subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section | ||
21.402; [ |
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(2) the product of $500: | ||
(A) multiplied by the number of classroom | ||
teachers employed by the district who have at least three years of | ||
classroom experience; and | ||
(B) multiplied by the number of certified | ||
teachers employed by the district who serve as a teacher in a | ||
subject area designated by the commissioner as a teacher shortage | ||
area; and | ||
(3) the product of $250 multiplied by the number of | ||
part-time district employees, other than administrators. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 822.201(b), Government Code, as | ||
effective September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) "Salary and wages" as used in Subsection (a) means: | ||
(1) normal periodic payments of money for service the | ||
right to which accrues on a regular basis in proportion to the | ||
service performed; | ||
(2) amounts by which the member's salary is reduced | ||
under a salary reduction agreement authorized by Chapter 610; | ||
(3) amounts that would otherwise qualify as salary and | ||
wages under Subdivision (1) but are not received directly by the | ||
member pursuant to a good faith, voluntary written salary reduction | ||
agreement in order to finance payments to a deferred compensation | ||
or tax sheltered annuity program specifically authorized by state | ||
law or to finance benefit options under a cafeteria plan qualifying | ||
under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, if: | ||
(A) the program or benefit options are made | ||
available to all employees of the employer; and | ||
(B) the benefit options in the cafeteria plan are | ||
limited to one or more options that provide deferred compensation, | ||
group health and disability insurance, group term life insurance, | ||
dependent care assistance programs, or group legal services plans; | ||
(4) performance pay awarded to an employee by a school | ||
district as part of a total compensation plan approved by the board | ||
of trustees of the district and meeting the requirements of | ||
Subsection (e); | ||
(5) the benefit replacement pay a person earns under | ||
Subchapter H, Chapter 659, except as provided by Subsection (c); | ||
(6) stipends paid to teachers in accordance with | ||
Section 21.4023, 21.410, 21.411, 21.412, or 21.413, Education Code; | ||
(7) amounts by which the member's salary is reduced or | ||
that are deducted from the member's salary as authorized by | ||
Subchapter J, Chapter 659; | ||
(8) a merit salary increase made under Section 51.962, | ||
Education Code; | ||
(9) amounts received under the relevant parts of the | ||
educator excellence awards program under Subchapter O, Chapter 21, | ||
Education Code, or a mentoring program under Section 21.458, | ||
Education Code, that authorize compensation for service; | ||
(10) salary amounts designated as health care | ||
supplementation by an employee under Subchapter D, Chapter 22, | ||
Education Code; and | ||
(11) to the extent required by Sections 3401(h) and | ||
414(u)(12), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, differential wage | ||
payments received by an individual from an employer on or after | ||
January 1, 2009, while the individual is performing qualified | ||
military service as defined by Section 414(u), Internal Revenue | ||
Code of 1986. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. |