Bill Text: TX HB255 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional staff employed by public schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-08 - Left pending in committee [HB255 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB255-Introduced.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 255 | |
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| relating to the salary paid to certain professional staff employed | ||
| by public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c-2), (c-3), and (d) and amending Subsection | ||
| (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year, a classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time | ||
| school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time 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 2017-2018 school year under the district's salary | ||
| schedule for the 2016-2017 school year, if that schedule had been in | ||
| effect for the 2017-2018 school year, including any local | ||
| supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement | ||
| the employee would have received in the 2017-2018 school year; and | ||
| (2) $400. | ||
| (c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September | ||
| 1, 2018. | ||
| (d) A classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time | ||
| school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time nurse | ||
| employed by a school district in the 2017-2018 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 2017-2018 school year. | ||
| (g) The commissioner may adopt rules to govern the | ||
| application of this section, including rules that: | ||
| (1) require the payment of a minimum salary under this | ||
| section to a person employed in more than one capacity for which a | ||
| minimum salary is provided and whose combined employment in those | ||
| capacities constitutes full-time employment; and | ||
| (2) specify the credentials a person must hold to be | ||
| considered a [ |
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| section. | ||
| 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 $4,000 multiplied by the number of | ||
| classroom teachers, full-time librarians, full-time school | ||
| counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time | ||
| nurses employed by the district; and | ||
| (3) the product of $250 multiplied by the number of | ||
| part-time district employees, other than administrators. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, if this | ||
| Act receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each | ||
| house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. | ||
| If this Act does not receive the vote necessary to take effect | ||
| September 1, 2017, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
