Bill Text: TX HB1651 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring a school district to reimburse classroom teachers employed by the district for the cost of classroom supplies purchased with personal money.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1651 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1651-Introduced.html
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| By: Oliveira | H.B. No. 1651 | |
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| relating to requiring a school district to reimburse classroom | ||
| teachers employed by the district 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 school | ||
| district shall reimburse each classroom teacher employed by the | ||
| district up to $200 per school year for the cost of classroom | ||
| supplies purchased by the teacher with the teacher's personal money | ||
| for the benefit of the district's students. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.414, Education Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2017. | ||
