87R5245 CXP-F By: Gates H.B. No. 1146 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to placement on the minimum salary schedule for certain public school career or technology education teachers. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 21.403(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) For each year of work experience required for certification in a career or technological field, up to a maximum of 10 [two] years, [a] certified career or technology education teachers and persons issued a school district teaching permit under Section 21.055(d-1) are [teacher is] entitled to salary step credit as if the work experience were teaching experience. SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 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, 2021.