Bill Text: TX HB860 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 860 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the compensation of public school district employees for additional workdays.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB860 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB860-Introduced.html



	By: Bernal	H.B. No. 860



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the compensation of public school district employees
	for additional workdays.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 22.012 to read as follows:
	Sec. 22.012. COMPENSATION FOR ADDITIONAL WORKDAY. (a) Not
	later than May 1 of each year, a school district shall publish an
	official calendar for the following school year that specifies each
	day that is an official workday for school district employees.
	(b) If a school district employee is required to work on
	additional days that are not identified as workdays on the calendar
	published as required by Subsection (a), the district shall
	compensate the employee for the additional days.
	(c) A school district must compensate an employee for each
	additional day of work in an amount not less than the greater of:
	(1) the amount that the school district would deduct
	from the employee's annual salary if the employee accrued an
	absence beyond the employee's available personal leave;
	(2) a daily rate, calculated by dividing the
	employee's annual salary by the number of workdays specified in the
	calendar required under Subsection (a); or
	(3) the same rate by which the annual salary of the
	employee may be reduced as provided by Section 21.4021(b).
	(d) A school district may not take any action that results
	in a longer workday for a school district employee to comply with
	this section.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it 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 for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.