By: Bhojani H.B. No. 4076
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the salary step credit for a certified career and
technology education teacher.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.403, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A teacher, librarian, school counselor, or nurse shall
advance one step on the minimum salary schedule under Section
21.402 for each year of experience as a teacher, librarian, school
counselor, or nurse until step 20 is reached.
(b) For each year of work experience required for
certification in a career or technological field, up to a maximum of
twofive years, a certified career or technology education teacher
is entitled to salary step credit as if the work experience were
teaching experience.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for determining the
experience for which a teacher, librarian, school counselor, or
nurse is to be given credit in placing the teacher, librarian,
school counselor, or nurse on the minimum salary schedule. A
district shall credit the teacher, librarian, school counselor, or
nurse for each year of experience without regard to whether the
years are consecutive.
(d) As long as a teacher or librarian who received a career
ladder supplement is employed by the same school district, the
teacher or librarian is entitled to:
(1) placement on the minimum salary schedule at the
step above the step on which the teacher would otherwise be placed,
if the teacher or librarian received a career ladder supplement for
level two of the career ladder on August 31, 1993; or
(2) placement on the minimum salary schedule at the
step two steps above the step on which the teacher would otherwise
be placed, if the teacher or librarian received a career ladder
supplement for level three of the career ladder on August 31, 1993.
SECTION 2. Section 823.404, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) An eligible member may establish equivalent membership
service credit for up to a maximum of fiveone or two years of work
experience for which the member is entitled to salary step credit
under Section 21.403(b), Education Code.
(b) A member is eligible to establish equivalent membership
service credit under this section if the member has at least five
years of membership service credit.
(c) A member may establish credit under this section by
depositing with the retirement system, for each year of service,
the actuarial present value, at the time of deposit, of the
additional standard retirement annuity benefits that would be
attributable to the conversion of the work experience into service
credit based on rates and tables recommended by the actuary and
adopted by the board of trustees.
(d) After a member makes the deposits required by this
section, the retirement system shall grant the member one year of
equivalent membership service credit for each year of service
approved.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
school year.
SECTION 4. 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, 2023.