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1	1	85S10204 MM-D
2	2	By: Martinez H.B. No. 218
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of
8	8	public schools.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 21.402(a), Education Code, as effective
11	11	September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
12	12	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (e-1) or (f), a school
13	13	district must pay each classroom teacher, full-time librarian,
14	14	full-time school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or
15	15	full-time school nurse not less than the minimum monthly salary[,
16	16	based on the employee's level of experience in addition to other
17	17	factors, as determined by commissioner rule,] determined as
18	18	provided by Subsection (b) [the following formula:
19	19	[MS = SF x FS
20	20	[where:
21	21	["MS" is the minimum monthly salary;
22	22	["SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection
23	23	(c); and
24	24	["FS" is the amount, as determined by the commissioner under
25	25	Subsection (b), of the basic allotment as provided by Section
26	26	42.101(a) or (b) for a school district with a maintenance and
27	27	operations tax rate at least equal to the state maximum compressed
28	28	tax rate, as defined by Section 42.101(a)].
29	29	SECTION 2. Sections 21.402(b), (c-1), and (e-1), Education
30	30	Code, are amended to read as follows:
31	31	(b) The commissioner shall adopt rules to establish a method
32	32	for annually setting a salary schedule for classroom teachers,
33	33	full-time librarians, full-time school counselors certified under
34	34	Subchapter B, and full-time school nurses based on the employee's
35	35	level of experience. The commissioner's method must provide a
36	36	salary level for each year of experience from 0 years through 20
37	37	years. The commissioner shall ensure that the salary schedule is
38	38	consistent with the national average salary, based on experience,
39	39	for those employees as determined by statistics gathered by the
40	40	National Center for Education Statistics or a similar independent
41	41	education-oriented institution. Not later than June 1 of each
42	42	year, the commissioner shall determine, based on the salary
43	43	schedule, the minimum monthly salary for each classroom teacher,
44	44	full-time librarian, full-time school counselor certified under
45	45	Subchapter B, and full-time school nurse for the following school
46	46	year [the basic allotment and resulting monthly salaries to be paid
47	47	by school districts as provided by Subsection (a)].
48	48	(c-1) Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (b), each school
49	49	district shall pay a monthly salary to each classroom teacher,
50	50	full-time speech pathologist, full-time librarian, full-time
51	51	school counselor certified under Subchapter B, and full-time school
52	52	nurse that is at least equal to the following monthly salary or the
53	53	monthly salary determined by the commissioner under Subsection
54	54	[Subsections (a) and] (b), whichever is greater:
55	55	Years of Monthly Years of Monthly
56	56	Years of Monthly
57	57	Experience Salary Experience Salary
58	58	Experience Salary
59	59	0 2,732 0 2,732
60	60	0 2,732
61	61	1 2,791 1 2,791
62	62	1 2,791
63	63	2 2,849 2 2,849
64	64	2 2,849
65	65	3 2,908 3 2,908
66	66	3 2,908
67	67	4 3,032 4 3,032
68	68	4 3,032
69	69	5 3,156 5 3,156
70	70	5 3,156
71	71	6 3,280 6 3,280
72	72	6 3,280
73	73	7 3,395 7 3,395
74	74	7 3,395
75	75	8 3,504 8 3,504
76	76	8 3,504
77	77	9 3,607 9 3,607
78	78	9 3,607
79	79	10 3,704 10 3,704
80	80	10 3,704
81	81	11 3,796 11 3,796
82	82	11 3,796
83	83	12 3,884 12 3,884
84	84	12 3,884
85	85	13 3,965 13 3,965
86	86	13 3,965
87	87	14 4,043 14 4,043
88	88	14 4,043
89	89	15 4,116 15 4,116
90	90	15 4,116
91	91	16 4,186 16 4,186
92	92	16 4,186
93	93	17 4,251 17 4,251
94	94	17 4,251
95	95	18 4,313 18 4,313
96	96	18 4,313
97	97	19 4,372 19 4,372
98	98	19 4,372
99	99	20 & Over 4,427 20 & Over 4,427
100	100	20 & Over 4,427
101	101	(e-1) If the minimum monthly salary determined under
102	102	Subsection (b) [(a)] for a particular level of experience is less
103	103	than the minimum monthly salary for that level of experience in the
104	104	preceding year, the minimum monthly salary is the minimum monthly
105	105	salary for the preceding year.
106	106	SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
107	107	amended by adding Section 42.2520 to read as follows:
108	108	Sec. 42.2520. ADDITIONAL STATE AID OR CREDIT AGAINST COST
109	109	OF ATTENDANCE CREDITS FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES. (a) For
110	110	each school year, a school district, including a school district
111	111	that is otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is
112	112	entitled to state aid in an amount, as determined by the
113	113	commissioner, equal to the difference between the district's salary
114	114	cost under Section 21.402, as amended by __.B. ___, Acts of the 85th
115	115	Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017, for all classroom teachers,
116	116	full-time librarians, full-time school counselors certified under
117	117	Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by
118	118	the district and an amount equal to what the district's salary costs
119	119	would have been for that school year under Section 21.402, as it
120	120	existed before amendment by __.B. ___, Acts of the 85th
121	121	Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017.
122	122	(b) A school district that is required to take action under
123	123	Chapter 41 to reduce its wealth per student to the equalized wealth
124	124	level is entitled to a credit, in the amount of state aid to which
125	125	the district is entitled under this section, against the total
126	126	amount required under Section 41.093 for the district to purchase
127	127	attendance credits.
128	128	(c) A determination by the commissioner under this section
129	129	is final and may not be appealed.
130	130	(d) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this
131	131	section.
132	132	SECTION 4. Section 21.402(c), Education Code, is repealed.
133	133	SECTION 5. Not later than March 1, 2018, the commissioner of
134	134	education shall adopt rules to establish a method for annually
135	135	setting a salary schedule as provided by Section 21.402(b),
136	136	Education Code, as amended by this Act.
137	137	SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 2018-2019
138	138	school year.
139	139	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, if it
140	140	receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
141	141	house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
142	142	If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for effect on that
143	143	date, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
144	144	legislative session.
145	145
146	146	Years of Monthly
147	147
148	148	Experience Salary
149	149
150	150	0 2,732
151	151
152	152	1 2,791
153	153
154	154	2 2,849
155	155
156	156	3 2,908
157	157
158	158	4 3,032
159	159
160	160	5 3,156
161	161
162	162	6 3,280
163	163
164	164	7 3,395
165	165
166	166	8 3,504
167	167
168	168	9 3,607
169	169
170	170	10 3,704
171	171
172	172	11 3,796
173	173
174	174	12 3,884
175	175
176	176	13 3,965
177	177
178	178	14 4,043
179	179
180	180	15 4,116
181	181
182	182	16 4,186
183	183
184	184	17 4,251
185	185
186	186	18 4,313
187	187
188	188	19 4,372
189	189
190	190	20 & Over 4,427