Bill Text: MI SB0769 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Education; teachers; annual incentives for certain teachers working in low-performing schools; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1250a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-25 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0769 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0769-Introduced.html

---

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 769

 

 

January 25, 2018, Introduced by Senators CONYERS, GREGORY, BIEDA, HOOD, YOUNG, HOPGOOD, ANANICH, HERTEL, KNEZEK, WARREN and JOHNSON and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1250a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1250a. (1) A school district, intermediate school

 

district, or public school academy shall ensure that the method of

 

compensation implemented under section 1250 provides for an annual

 

bonus of $1,800.00 for teachers engaged to teach mathematics,

 

science, or special education in a public school in which at least

 

50% of the pupils enrolled meet the income eligibility criteria for

 

the federal free or reduced-price lunch program, as determined

 

under the Richard B. Russell national school lunch act, 42 USC 1751

 

to 1769j.

 

     (2) If a collective bargaining agreement is in effect for

 

teachers of a school district, public school academy, or

 

intermediate school district as of the effective date of the

 

amendatory act that added this section, and if that collective

 

bargaining agreement prevents compliance with subsection (1), then

 

subsection (1) does not apply to that school district, public

 

school academy, or intermediate school district until after the

 

expiration of that collective bargaining agreement.

 

     (3) Subject to an appropriation, the department shall

 

reimburse a school district, intermediate school district, or

 

public school academy for costs incurred by the school district,

 

intermediate school district, or public school academy under this

 

section.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.