Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

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1	1	86R2690 MEW-D
2	2	By: Alvarado S.B. No. 326
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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, Education Code, is amended by
11	11	adding Subsections (c-2), (c-3), and (d) and amending Subsection
12	12	(g) to read as follows:
13	13	(c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2019-2020
14	14	school year, a classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
15	15	school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school
16	16	nurse is entitled to a monthly salary that is at least equal to the
17	17	sum of:
18	18	(1) the monthly salary the employee would have
19	19	received for the 2019-2020 school year under the district's salary
20	20	schedule for the 2018-2019 school year, if that schedule had been in
21	21	effect for the 2019-2020 school year, including any local
22	22	supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement
23	23	the employee would have received in the 2019-2020 school year; and
24	24	(2) $400.
25	25	(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September
26	26	1, 2020.
27	27	(d) A classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
28	28	school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school
29	29	nurse employed by a school district in the 2019-2020 school year is,
30	30	as long as the employee is employed by the same district, entitled
31	31	to a salary that is at least equal to the salary the employee
32	32	received for the 2019-2020 school year.
33	33	(g) The commissioner may adopt rules to govern the
34	34	application of this section, including rules that:
35	35	(1) require the payment of a minimum salary under this
36	36	section to a person employed in more than one capacity for which a
37	37	minimum salary is provided and whose combined employment in those
38	38	capacities constitutes full-time employment; and
39	39	(2) specify the credentials a person must hold to be
40	40	considered a [speech pathologist or] school nurse under this
41	41	section.
42	42	SECTION 2. Section 42.2513(a), Education Code, is amended
43	43	to read as follows:
44	44	(a) A school district, including a school district that is
45	45	otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled
46	46	to state aid in an amount equal to the sum of:
47	47	(1) the product of $500 multiplied by the number of
48	48	full-time district employees, other than administrators or
49	49	employees subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section
50	50	21.402; [and]
51	51	(2) the product of $4,000 multiplied by the number of
52	52	classroom teachers, full-time librarians, full-time school
53	53	counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time
54	54	school nurses employed by the district; and
55	55	(3) the product of $250 multiplied by the number of
56	56	part-time district employees, other than administrators.
57	57	SECTION 3. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is
58	58	repealed.
59	59	SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
60	60	school year.
61	61	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.