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1	1	By: Bhojani H.B. No. 4076
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the salary step credit for a certified career and
7	7	technology education teacher.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 21.403, Education Code, is amended to
10	10	read as follows:
11	11	(a) A teacher, librarian, school counselor, or nurse shall
12	12	advance one step on the minimum salary schedule under Section
13	13	21.402 for each year of experience as a teacher, librarian, school
14	14	counselor, or nurse until step 20 is reached.
15	15	(b) For each year of work experience required for
16	16	certification in a career or technological field, up to a maximum of
17	17	twofive years, a certified career or technology education teacher
18	18	is entitled to salary step credit as if the work experience were
19	19	teaching experience.
20	20	(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for determining the
21	21	experience for which a teacher, librarian, school counselor, or
22	22	nurse is to be given credit in placing the teacher, librarian,
23	23	school counselor, or nurse on the minimum salary schedule. A
24	24	district shall credit the teacher, librarian, school counselor, or
25	25	nurse for each year of experience without regard to whether the
26	26	years are consecutive.
27	27	(d) As long as a teacher or librarian who received a career
28	28	ladder supplement is employed by the same school district, the
29	29	teacher or librarian is entitled to:
30	30	(1) placement on the minimum salary schedule at the
31	31	step above the step on which the teacher would otherwise be placed,
32	32	if the teacher or librarian received a career ladder supplement for
33	33	level two of the career ladder on August 31, 1993; or
34	34	(2) placement on the minimum salary schedule at the
35	35	step two steps above the step on which the teacher would otherwise
36	36	be placed, if the teacher or librarian received a career ladder
37	37	supplement for level three of the career ladder on August 31, 1993.
38	38	SECTION 2. Section 823.404, Government Code, is amended to
39	39	read as follows:
40	40	(a) An eligible member may establish equivalent membership
41	41	service credit for up to a maximum of fiveone or two years of work
42	42	experience for which the member is entitled to salary step credit
43	43	under Section 21.403(b), Education Code.
44	44	(b) A member is eligible to establish equivalent membership
45	45	service credit under this section if the member has at least five
46	46	years of membership service credit.
47	47	(c) A member may establish credit under this section by
48	48	depositing with the retirement system, for each year of service,
49	49	the actuarial present value, at the time of deposit, of the
50	50	additional standard retirement annuity benefits that would be
51	51	attributable to the conversion of the work experience into service
52	52	credit based on rates and tables recommended by the actuary and
53	53	adopted by the board of trustees.
54	54	(d) After a member makes the deposits required by this
55	55	section, the retirement system shall grant the member one year of
56	56	equivalent membership service credit for each year of service
57	57	approved.
58	58	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
59	59	school year.
60	60	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
61	61	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
62	62	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
63	63	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
64	64	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.