Bill Text: TX HB2438 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring a school district to reimburse classroom teachers at certain grade levels for the cost of classroom supplies purchased with personal money.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Public Education [HB2438 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2438-Introduced.html
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| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 2438 | |
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| 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 21.417 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.417. 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 $600 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 2023-2024 | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
