Bill Text: TX HB954 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | 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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-25 - Referred to Public Education [HB954 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB954-Introduced.html
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By: Thierry | H.B. No. 954 |
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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 ninth 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 2019-2020 | ||
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 September 1, 2019. |