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Committee hears HB 712 provisions on teacher base pay and retired-educator rehire; CPI removal draws opposition
Summary
House Bill 712 contains several provisions: a possible adjustment to the baseline teacher salary mechanics (including a CPI indexing change that witnesses opposed), extension of a retirement-work exemption for substitute teaching, and related technical changes. The retirement piece drew support; removing CPI indexing drew opposition from teacher,
House Bill 712, discussed in committee, contains multiple education-related provisions. The sponsor, Representative Pollitt, described the bill as a package that includes: an adjustment to grade-level definitions (committee substitute expected to limit the grade-level change to grades 3–8), a proposed removal of a CPI adjustment on the baseline teacher-salary mechanism (language derived from Senate Bill 727 and related prior action), and extension of a statutory retirement-work exemption that allows certain retired educators to substitute teach without losing retirement allowances.
Sponsor testimony said the retirement exemption—currently set to sunset—has been used by many districts to keep experienced retirees in substitute roles during continuing teacher shortages and that the sponsor sought to extend the sunset date…
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