Bill Text: TX HB192 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the reimbursement of certain school district classroom teachers for the cost of classroom supplies purchased with personal money.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-23 - Filed [HB192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB192-Introduced.html
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| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 192 | |
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| relating to the reimbursement of certain school district classroom | ||
| teachers 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 21.4145 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.4145. CLASSROOM SUPPLY REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN | ||
| GRADE LEVELS. (a) From money appropriated or otherwise available | ||
| for the purpose, the agency shall distribute to each school | ||
| district the amount necessary for the district to reimburse each | ||
| classroom teacher employed by the district who teaches students | ||
| enrolled at or below the ninth grade level for the cost of classroom | ||
| supplies purchased by the teacher with the teacher's personal money | ||
| for the benefit of those students as follows: | ||
| (1) for a classroom teacher who teaches students | ||
| enrolled at or below the sixth grade level, up to $600 per school | ||
| year; and | ||
| (2) for a classroom teacher who teaches students | ||
| enrolled at the seventh, eighth, or ninth grade level, up to $500 | ||
| per school year. | ||
| (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). | ||
| (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2024-2025 | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
