Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1037
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 20-28-9-26.
Synopsis: Minimum teacher salaries. Provides that, for each school
year beginning after June 30, 2025, a school corporation shall, if the
school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot
establish a minimum salary of $60,000 for each full-time teacher,
submit a report to the department of education explaining the school
corporation's inability to meet the minimum threshold requirement.
(Current law establishes this requirement if a school corporation
determines that the school corporation cannot establish a minimum
salary of $40,000 for each full-time teacher.)
Effective: July 1, 2024.
Klinker
January 8, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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Second Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2024)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1037
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 20-28-9-26, AS ADDED BY P.L.165-2021,
2 SECTION 154, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
3 [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2024]: Sec. 26. (a) For each school year
4 beginning after June 30, 2022, if a school corporation determines that
5 the school corporation cannot establish a minimum salary of forty
6 thousand dollars ($40,000) for each full-time teacher, the school
7 corporation shall submit a report to the department explaining the
8 school corporation's inability to meet the minimum threshold
9 requirement. This subsection expires July 1, 2025.
10 (b) For each school year beginning after June 30, 2025, if a
11 school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot
12 establish a minimum salary of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for
13 each full-time teacher, the school corporation shall submit a report
14 to the department explaining the school corporation's inability to
15 meet the minimum threshold requirement.
16 (b) (c) A report submitted under this section must include an
17 explanation of the financial challenges, with detailed data, that
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1 preclude the school corporation from meeting the minimum salary
2 threshold required under subsection (a) (before its expiration) or
3 subsection (b). The report must also describe the cost saving measures
4 taken by the school corporation in attempting to meet the minimum
5 salary threshold required under subsection (a) (before its expiration)
6 or subsection (b).
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