| 1 | 1 | | 85R12540 MM-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Thierry H.B. No. 2800 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to requiring a school district to reimburse classroom |
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| 8 | 8 | | teachers at certain grade levels for the cost of classroom supplies |
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| 9 | 9 | | purchased with personal money. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended by adding Section 21.417 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 21.417. CLASSROOM SUPPLY REIMBURSEMENT. (a) A school |
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| 14 | 14 | | district shall reimburse each classroom teacher employed by the |
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| 15 | 15 | | district who teaches students enrolled at or below the sixth grade |
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| 16 | 16 | | level up to $600 per school year for the cost of classroom supplies |
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| 17 | 17 | | purchased by the teacher with the teacher's personal money for the |
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| 18 | 18 | | benefit of those students. |
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| 19 | 19 | | (b) A classroom teacher may be reimbursed under the |
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| 20 | 20 | | classroom supply reimbursement program established under Section |
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| 21 | 21 | | 21.414 for the cost of purchases eligible for reimbursement under |
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| 22 | 22 | | that section for which the teacher is not reimbursed under |
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| 23 | 23 | | Subsection (a). |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 |
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| 25 | 25 | | school year. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 27 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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