Bill Text: TX HB3002 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Public Education [HB3002 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3002-Introduced.html

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83R10631 VOO-D
By: Allen H.B. No. 3002

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of
public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (c) and (g) and adding Subsections (c-2),
(c-3), and (d) to read as follows:
(c) The salary factors per step are as follows:
0 1 2 3 4
.5864 [.5464] .5982 [.5582] .6098 [.5698] .6216 [.5816] .6464 [.6064]
5 6 7 8 9
.6712 [.6312] .6960 [.6560] .7190 [.6790] .7408 [.7008] .7614 [.7214]
10 11 12 13 14
.7808 [.7408] .7992 [.7592] .8168 [.7768] .8330 [.7930] .8486 [.8086]
15 16 17 18 19
.8632 [.8232] .8772 [.8372] .8902 [.8502] .9026 [.8626] .9144 [.8744]
.9254 [.8854]
(c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2013-2014
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 2013-2014 school year under the district's salary
schedule for the 2012-2013 school year, if that schedule had been in
effect for the 2013-2014 school year, including any local
supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement
the employee would have received in the 2013-2014 school year; and
(2) $200.
(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September
1, 2014.
(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 2013-2014 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 2013-2014 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 [speech pathologist or] school nurse under this
section.
SECTION 2. Section 42.2516, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
(e-1) The amount of state aid or credit to which a school
district is entitled under Section 42.2518 is in addition to the
amount of revenue to which the district is entitled under
Subsection (b). This subsection expires September 1, 2017.
SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 42.2518 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.2518. ADDITIONAL STATE AID OR CREDIT AGAINST COST
OF ATTENDANCE CREDITS FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES. (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, as determined by the commissioner, equal to the
product of $2,000 multiplied by the number of classroom teachers,
full-time librarians, full-time counselors certified under
Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by
the district and entitled to a minimum salary under Section 21.402.
(b) 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.
(c) A determination by the commissioner under this section
is final and may not be appealed.
(d) The commissioner may 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 2013-2014
school year.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.