Bill Text: TX HB54 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring a school district to reimburse classroom teachers at certain grade levels for the cost of classroom supplies purchased with personal money.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-01 - Left pending in committee [HB54 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB54-Introduced.html
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| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 54 | |
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| relating to requiring a school district to reimburse classroom | ||
| teachers at certain grade levels for the cost of classroom supplies | ||
| purchased with personal money. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.416 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.416. CLASSROOM SUPPLY REIMBURSEMENT. (a) A school | ||
| district shall reimburse each classroom teacher employed by the | ||
| district who teaches students enrolled at or below the sixth grade | ||
| level up to $600 per school year for the cost of classroom supplies | ||
| purchased by the teacher with the teacher's personal money for the | ||
| benefit of those students. | ||
| (b) A classroom teacher may be reimbursed under the | ||
| classroom supply reimbursement program established under Section | ||
| 21.414 for the cost of purchases eligible for reimbursement under | ||
| that section for which the teacher is not reimbursed under | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
