| 1 | 1 | | By: Seliger S.B. No. 398 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed January 5, 2009; February 17, 2009, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Education; |
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| 4 | 4 | | March 16, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | 5 | | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 4; March 16, 2009, |
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| 6 | 6 | | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 398 By: Williams |
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| 10 | 10 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT |
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| 12 | 12 | | relating to professional staff salaries paid by school districts |
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| 13 | 13 | | that establish a local minimum hiring schedule. |
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| 14 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is |
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| 16 | 16 | | amended by adding Section 21.4021 to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | Sec. 21.4021. SALARIES IN DISTRICTS ESTABLISHING LOCAL |
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| 18 | 18 | | MINIMUM HIRING SCHEDULE. (a) This section applies only to a |
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| 19 | 19 | | school district that establishes a local minimum hiring schedule |
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| 20 | 20 | | that prescribes the minimum salary, based on the employee's level |
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| 21 | 21 | | of experience, that the district will pay a new employee, without |
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| 22 | 22 | | prescribing a minimum salary applicable to subsequent years of that |
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| 23 | 23 | | employee's employment with the district. |
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| 24 | 24 | | (b) A school district to which this section applies that |
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| 25 | 25 | | pays each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time |
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| 26 | 26 | | counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time nurse a |
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| 27 | 27 | | greater amount than the minimum monthly salary to which the |
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| 28 | 28 | | employee is entitled under Section 21.402 is not required by this |
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| 29 | 29 | | code to provide annual pay increases based on the employee's level |
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| 30 | 30 | | of experience. |
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| 31 | 31 | | (c) If the minimum salaries prescribed by Section 21.402 are |
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| 32 | 32 | | increased and the state provides additional funding for the amount |
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| 33 | 33 | | of that increase, a school district to which this section applies is |
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| 34 | 34 | | not required to pay an employee more than the sum of the additional |
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| 35 | 35 | | funding per employee provided by the state and the employee's |
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| 36 | 36 | | salary for the school year immediately preceding the school year |
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| 37 | 37 | | for which the additional state funding is provided. |
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| 38 | 38 | | (d) To the extent of any conflict between Section 21.402 and |
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| 39 | 39 | | this section, Section 21.402 prevails. |
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| 40 | 40 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010 |
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| 41 | 41 | | school year. |
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| 42 | 42 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 43 | 43 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 44 | 44 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 45 | 45 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 46 | 46 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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| 47 | 47 | | * * * * * |
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