Bill Text: TX SB693 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the salary and wages paid to public school employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-14 - Co-author authorized [SB693 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB693-Introduced.html

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By: LaMantia S.B. No. 693

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the salary and wages paid to public school employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-2) and (d) to read
as follows:
(c) The salary factors per step are as follow:
Years of Experience Salary Factor
0 0.7899 [0.5464]
1 0.8017 [0.5582]
2 0.8133 [0.5698]
3 0.8251 [0.5816]
4 0.8499 [0.6064]
5 0.8747 [0.6312]
6 0.8995 [0.6560]
7 0.9225 [0.6790]
8 0.9443 [0.7008]
9 0.9649 [0.7214]
10 0.9843 [0.7408]
11 1.0027 [0.7592]
12 1.0203 [0.7768]
13 1.0365 [0.7930]
14 1.0521 [0.8086]
15 1.0667 [0.8232]
16 1.0807 [0.8372]
17 1.0937 [0.8502]
18 1.1061 [0.8626]
19 1.1179 [0.8744]
20 and over 1.1289 [0.8854]
(c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2023-2024
school year, a classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school nurse
is entitled to a monthly salary that is at least equal to the sum of:
(1) the monthly salary the employee would have
received for the 2023-2024 school year under the district 's salary
schedule for the 2022-2023 school year, if that schedule had been in
effect for the 2023-2024 school year, including any local
supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement
the employee would have received in the 2023-2024 school year; and
(2) $1,500.
(d) A classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school nurse
employed by a school district in the 2023-2024 school year is, as
long as the employee is employed by the same district, entitled to a
salary that is at least equal to the salary the employee received
for the 2023-2024 school year.
SECTION 2. Section 22.107, Education Code, is amended to
add subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) For the 2022-2023 school year, a school district shall
provide a 25 percent increase to the wages of each full-time
employee, other than an administrator or an employee subject to the
minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402. A full-time employee,
other than an administrator, and except as otherwise provided by
Section 21.402(d) who is employed by a district in the 2023-2024
school year is, as long as the employee is employed by the same
district and in the same position, entitled to a salary that is at
least equal to the salary the employee received for the 2023-2024
school year.
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 48.053 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.053. ADDITIONAL STATE AID OR CREDIT AGAINST COST OF
ATTENDANCE CREDITS FOR NONADMINISTRATIVE EMPLOYEES. (a) For each
school year, 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 product of $15,000 multiplied
by the number of classroom teachers, full-time librarians,
full-time counselors, and full-time nurses employed by the district
and the amount the district is required to pay for wage increases
under Section 22.107(d).
(b) A school district shall use the amount received under
this section to provide the salary allotments required under
Section 21.402 and the wage increases under Section 22.107(d).
(c) A school district that is required to reduce its revenue
pursuant to Section 48.257 is entitled to a credit, in the amount of
state aid to which the district is entitled under this section.
(d) The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this
section.
SECTION 4. Section 21.402 (c-1), Education Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
school year.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.