teachers get $1,000 a year for classroom supplies

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90R196 ANG-D

By: Leo Wilson
H.B. No. 136

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the establishment of the teachers' classroom supply

savings account program.

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. TEACHERS' CLASSROOM SUPPLY SAVINGS ACCOUNT

PROGRAM. (a) The comptroller shall establish and administer a

teachers' classroom supply savings account program through which,

each school year, the comptroller provides to each eligible teacher

a grant of $1,000 to purchase classroom supplies.

(b) In administering the program, the comptroller shall

maintain a system of online accounts to provide access to the grant

described by Subsection (a) to an eligible teacher.

(c) A teacher is eligible to participate in the program if

the teacher is:

(1) employed by a school district or open-enrollment

charter school to teach not less than an average of four hours each

day in an academic instructional setting or a career and technology

instructional setting; and

(2) certified under Subchapter B.

(d) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a teacher may

spend grant money only on classroom supplies to be used by the

teacher or the teacher's students at the school district or

open-enrollment charter school at which the teacher is employed as

described by Subsection (c)(1) during the school year for which the

grant was provided.

(e) The comptroller shall adopt rules to establish a process

by which any grant money remaining in a teacher's account at the end

of a school year may be rolled over for use by the teacher during the

following school year for:

(1) the purchase of classroom supplies as described by

Subsection (d); or

(2) any costs associated with the teacher's

professional development.

(f) A teacher participating in the program shall retain the

receipt for each purchase made using grant money until the second

anniversary of the date of purchase.

(g) The comptroller shall adopt rules as necessary to

implement this section.

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2027-2028

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, 2027.