Bill Text: HI SB847 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Teachers; Incentives; Bonus
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Choy, Ing, Lowen, Luke, McKelvey, Pouha excused (6). [SB847 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-SB847-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TEACHERS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-706, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) There is established within the department the teacher national board certification incentive program to recognize and support exemplary teaching practice by supporting public school teachers who have achieved national board certification under the certification program of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The teacher national board certification incentive program shall provide:
(1) A $5,000 bonus per year for each public school teacher who maintains current national board certification;
(2) $1,500 upon completing all components of the certification program of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards;
(3) A reimbursement of the remainder of the national
board certification application fee upon achievement of national board
certification; [and]
(4) An additional $5,000 bonus per year for each public school teacher who maintains current national board certification and who teaches at:
(A) [A school that is in
restructuring under the No Child Left Behind Act, Public Law 107-110;] A
school in a focus, priority, or superintendent's zone, or other similar
designation, as determined by the department;
(B) A school with a high turnover rate, as determined by the department; or
[(C) A school that is not making
adequate yearly progress, but is not in restructuring under the No Child Left
Behind Act, Public Law 107-110; or
(D)] (C) A hard-to-fill school,
as determined by the department[.]; and
(5) An additional $5,000 bonus per year for any public school teacher who received a yearly bonus pursuant to paragraph (4); provided that the teacher maintains national board certification and continues teaching in the same school after the school transitions out of the qualifying designation pursuant to paragraph (4). The teacher shall receive the additional bonus from the time the school no longer meets any of the criteria of paragraph (4) until the end date of the teacher's ten-year national board certification in effect at the time the school lost its designation, or until the teacher is no longer employed at the school, whichever occurs first."
SECTION 2. This Act shall be applied retroactively to bonuses for the 2014 calendar year; provided that payment of such 2014 bonuses shall be made during the 2015 calendar year, in addition to any other bonuses for which the teacher is eligible for the 2015 calendar year.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Teachers; Incentives; Bonus
Description:
Amends annual bonuses for teachers to align with changes in state and federal school benchmarks and priority designations. Authorizes continuing bonuses for teachers in designated high-need schools that improve and become no longer designated as such. (SB847 HD1)
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