Educators/Graduate Degrees/Salary Schedule

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

This Act ensures that educators hired after the effective date of this Act, who earned graduate degrees prior to becoming educators, receive credit on the salary schedule for those degrees regardless of the specific subject area of those degrees. Once an individual is employed as an educator, in order to receive credit for any graduate degrees earned after that time, such degree must be in the subject area in which the educator is employed.

Every action

7 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Jun 16, 2023CommitteeIntroduced and Assigned to Education Committee in Senate · Senate Education
2. Jun 27, 2023CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits · Senate Education
3. Jan 9, 2024SenatePassed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES21–0 vote
4. Jan 10, 2024CommitteeAssigned to Education Committee in House · House Education
5. Jan 24, 2024CommitteeReported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 3 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits · House Education
6. Jun 11, 2024HousePassed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT39–0 vote
7. Aug 12, 2024GovernorSigned by Governor

Roll calls

2 recorded votes: 2 on the floor, 0 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 13 cosponsors: 10 Democrats, 3 Republicans.

• LV Laura V. SturgeonD Primary sponsor · District 4
• BT Bryan TownsendD Joint sponsor · District 11
• KW Kimberly WilliamsD Joint sponsor · District 19