By: Farabee H.B. No. 3630
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the minimum salary schedule for public school
employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.402, subsection (a), Education Code
is amended as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), (e), or (f), a
school district must pay each classroom teacher, full-time
librarian, full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B,
educational diagnostician, speech pathologist or full-time school
nurse not less than the minimum monthly salary, based on the
employee's level of experience, determined by the following
formula:
MS = SF x FS
where:
"MS" is the minimum monthly salary;
"SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection
(c); and
"FS" is the amount, as determined by the commissioner under
Subsection (b), of state and local funds per weighted student,
including funds provided under Section 42.2516(b)(1)(B), but not
funds provided under Section 42.2516(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(C), (b)(2),
or (b)(3), available to a district eligible to receive state
assistance under Section 42.302 with a maintenance and operations
tax rate per $100 of taxable value equal to the product of the state
compression percentage, as determined under Section 42.2516,
multiplied by $1.50, except that the amount of state and local funds
per weighted student does not include the amount attributable to
the increase in the guaranteed level made by Chapter 1187, Acts of
the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.