Bill Text: MI HB5482 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; teachers; reimbursement to a teacher for cost of earning an endorsement in a critical shortage discipline; require.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-31 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/30/2018 [HB5482 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5482-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5482

 

 

January 30, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Hammoud, Ellison, Greig, Sowerby, Pagan, Sneller, Gay-Dagnogo, Dianda, Lasinski, Brinks, LaGrand, Neeley, Garrett, Geiss, Cambensy, Hertel, Hoadley, Moss, Chang, Liberati, Yancey, Chirkun, Camilleri, Green, Durhal, Wittenberg, Faris, Cochran, Clemente, Rabhi, Jones and Love and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1531o.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1531o. (1) A school district shall reimburse a teacher

 

employed by the school district for the cost of earning an

 

endorsement in a critical shortage discipline included on the list

 

compiled under section 61 of the public school employees retirement

 

act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1361. The school district shall

 

provide the reimbursement to the teacher upon earning the

 

endorsement if the teacher commits to working in the school

 

district for at least 3 years after earning the endorsement. A

 

teacher is eligible for reimbursement under this subsection if he

 

or she provides to the school district proof that he or she has

 

earned the endorsement and proof of his or her payment of the cost

 

of earning the endorsement, in a form and manner prescribed by the

 

department.

 

     (2) If a teacher who receives reimbursement under subsection

 

(1) voluntarily leaves the employment of the school district that

 

provided the reimbursement within 3 years after receiving the

 

reimbursement, the teacher shall repay the full amount of the

 

reimbursement to the school district.

 

     (3) A school district shall prioritize a reimbursement under

 

subsection (1) to a teacher who is teaching in a field for which he

 

or she does not have an endorsement and who earns an endorsement in

 

that field.

 

     (4) Subject to an appropriation, the department shall

 

reimburse a school district for costs incurred by the school

 

district under this section.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.