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SB657 • 2025
Requires school district boards to ensure that a specified percentage of expenditures of the school district are paid as compensation to teachers of core academic subjects or manual skills.
This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
The plain English breakdown is still being put together. The official documents below are already here.
In committee upon adjournment.
Referred to Education.
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
Digest: Requires a school district board to pay teachers of certain subjects at least half of the school district budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Requires school district boards to ensure that a specified percentage of expenditures of the school district are paid as compensation to teachers of core academic subjects or manual skills. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025. Relating to: Relating to school district budget expenditures; declaring an emergency. Current location: In Senate Committee