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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 849

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Relating to: grants to school districts to pay student teachers an hourly wage, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Public instruction department of School — Board School — Building Teacher — Certificate Wage

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, this bill requires a school board to pay

each student teacher who student teaches in the school district an hourly wage of at

least $15 per hour. The bill also requires the Department of Public Instruction to

reimburse school boards for the cost of paying student teachers an hourly wage of $15

per hour. Under the bill, annually on the 3rd Monday in June, DPI must provide aid

to school boards in an amount equal to $15 times the total number of hours student

teachers student taught in the school district during the preceding school term.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Smith (D)

18 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Cabrera (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Vruwink (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 20, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, Johnson, Carpenter and Smith; cosponsored by Representatives Pope, Hebl, Sinicki, Billings, Zamarripa, C. Taylor, Anderson, Cabrera, Sargent, Emerson, Considine, Brostoff, Stubbs, Vruwink, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Bowen and Spreitzer

  2. Feb 20, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform

  3. Mar 9, 2020 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1