Journal Supplement, Text of Senate Bill No. 11, Regular Session as Amended by Senate Bill No. 7, First Called Session, Sixty-Second Legislature, State of Texas, 1971 Page: 42
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SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALL HOSPITALS, SPECIAL SCHOOLS,
YOUTH INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES OR OFFICES OF ARTICLE II
(Continued)
c. SPECIALTY CEPTIFICATION. In addition to the salary rates
specified in this Article for exempt positions, physicians who are
certified by a U.S. Medical Specialty Board may be paid not to exceed
one thousand dollars ($1,000) per year out of the appropriation to the
employing institution or agency for "unclassified personnel" if he is
working full-time for the institution or agency in the field of his
specialty certification. A copy of such specialty certification shall
be filed with the Comptroller prior to payment of this additional com-
pensation.
d. CLASSIFIED POSITIONS. Funds appropriated to institutions,
clinics, and other units of the Department of Health, Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and Texas Youth Council may he
expended to employ personnel in only those classified position titles
listed in Article V of this Act or in such other positions established
and approved by the State Classification Officer for use by the Depart-
ment. Rates of pay of classified positions shall be governed by Arti-
cle V of this Act, except that any State special school, or State mental
or tuberculosis hospital is hereby authorized to pay an additional night
salary differential not to exceed $15 per month to Registered Nurses who
work the 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. or the 11:00 p.m. to the 7:00 a.m.
shift or its equivalent.
It is further provided that appropriations for salaries of classi-
fied positions may be used to pay the wages of hourly workers when the
utilization of such personnel is in the best interest of an economical
and efficient program.
e. TEACHERS. Each principal, supervisor, or classroom teacher of
children in each State School or Home specified in this Article shall
receive as a minimum salary the classroom or exceptional teacher's
monthly salary rate specified in Senate Bill No. 116, Acts of the Fifty-
first Legislature, 1949, as amended.
Salary rates in excess of the minimum amounts specified in Senate
Bill No. 116, as amended, and the salaries of coaches and teachers of
exceptional children, may be paid with the advance written approval of
the Governor; but such approved rates shall never exceed the rates of
pay for like positions paid in the public schools of the city in which
the State School or Home is located.
f. TEMPORARY LABOR. Salaries for temporary labor shall not exceed
the prevailing wage scale in the locality where the work is done and may
be paid from appropriations from which classified salaries may be paid.
q. EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS. In order to acquire and
retain the employment of physicians and dentists, the Health Department
and Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and institutions
under their control and management may, upon written authorization of
the Commissioners of the Departments, pay from funds appropriated by
this Act to the Departments and Institutions under their control and
management an amount not to exceed $3,000 per annum in addition to the
salary rates specified in this Act. It is the intent of the Legisla-
ture, that this authorization be used to prevent critical vacancies with
the Departments and Institutions. Copies of the Commissioners' written
authorization shall be filed with the Comptroller prior to payment of
this additional compensation.II-a2
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