87R3361 MM-D
By: Fierro H.B. No. 779
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 $250 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 2021-2022
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, 2021.