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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 521

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Relating to: grants to encourage individuals to pursue a career in teaching or to facilitate teacher licensure, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Public instruction department of School — Administration School — Charter school Teacher — Certificate

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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

The bill creates a new grant program administered by the Department of Public

Instruction and available to school districts and operators of independent charter

schools to reimburse the cost of “Grow Your Own” programs. Under the bill, Grow

Your Own programs include high school clubs that encourage careers in teaching,

payment of costs associated with current staff acquiring education needed for

licensure, support for career pathways using dual enrollment, support for

partnerships focused on attracting or developing new teachers, or incentives for

paraprofessionals to gain licensure. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 in fiscal year

2024-25 for this purpose.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bare (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Myers (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D)

9 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shelton, Joers, C. Anderson, Clancy, Jacobson, Myers, Shankland, Madison, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Subeck, Bare, Stubbs, Moore Omokunde, J. Anderson and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Smith, Roys, Agard, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, L. Johnson, Carpenter and Pfaff

  2. Oct 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment

  3. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1