Bill Text: TX HB1371 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to additional funding to school districts for classroom teacher salaries.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Public Education [HB1371 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1371-Introduced.html
| 86R7744 MEW-F | ||
| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 1371 | |
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| relating to additional funding to school districts for classroom | ||
| teacher salaries. | ||
| 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. CLASSROOM TEACHER SALARY ALLOTMENT. (a) | ||
| Every full-time classroom teacher is entitled to an annual salary | ||
| allotment in the amount of $5,000. | ||
| (b) A salary allotment a teacher receives under this section | ||
| is not considered in determining whether the district is paying the | ||
| teacher the minimum monthly salary under Section 21.402. | ||
| (b-1) Notwithstanding Section 21.402, for the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year, every full-time classroom teacher is entitled to a | ||
| monthly salary that is at least equal to the sum of: | ||
| (1) the monthly salary the teacher would have received | ||
| for the 2019-2020 school year under the district's salary schedule | ||
| for the 2018-2019 school year, if that schedule had been in effect | ||
| for the 2019-2020 school year, including any local supplement and | ||
| any money representing any other supplement the teacher would have | ||
| received in the 2019-2020 school year; and | ||
| (2) $500. | ||
| (b-2) Subsection (b-1) and this subsection expire September | ||
| 1, 2020. | ||
| (c) A school district may provide a merit salary increase to | ||
| a full-time classroom teacher in addition to the salary allotment | ||
| to which the teacher is entitled under this section. | ||
| (d) A school district shall provide written notice to each | ||
| full-time classroom teacher that the salary allotment to which the | ||
| teacher is entitled under this section is provided by the state. | ||
| (e) The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.25131 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.25131. ADDITIONAL STATE AID OR CREDIT AGAINST COST | ||
| OF ATTENDANCE CREDITS FOR CLASSROOM TEACHER SALARY ALLOTMENT. (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 $5,000 multiplied by the number of full-time classroom teachers | ||
| employed by the district. | ||
| (b) A school district shall use the amount received under | ||
| this section to provide the salary allotments for full-time | ||
| classroom teachers required under Section 21.4023. | ||
| (c) A school district that is required to take action under | ||
| Chapter 41 to reduce its wealth per student to the equalized wealth | ||
| level is entitled to a credit, in the amount of state aid to which | ||
| the district is entitled under this section, against the total | ||
| amount required under Section 41.093 for the district to purchase | ||
| attendance credits. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
