81R2084 PAM-D
By: Seliger S.B. No. 398
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to professional staff salaries paid by certain school
districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 21.4021 to read as follows:
Sec. 21.4021. SALARIES IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. (a) A school
district that pays each classroom teacher, full-time librarian,
full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time
school nurse a greater amount than the minimum monthly salary to
which the employee is entitled under Section 21.402 is not required
by this code to provide annual pay increases based on the employee's
level of experience.
(b) A school district described by this section may, in
addition to any other salary arrangement permissible under law,
establish a local minimum hiring schedule that prescribes the
minimum salary, based on the employee's level of experience, that
the district will pay a new employee, without prescribing a minimum
salary applicable to subsequent years of that employee's
employment with the district.
(c) If the minimum salaries prescribed by Section 21.402 are
increased and the state provides additional funding for the amount
of that increase, a school district described by this section is not
required to pay an employee more than the sum of the additional
funding per employee provided by the state and the employee's
salary for the school year immediately preceding the school year
for which the additional state funding is provided.
(d) To the extent of any conflict between this section and
Section 21.402, Section 21.402 prevails.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2009.