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Committee adopts amendment and advances House Bill 607 after sponsors narrow changes to teacher salary language
Summary
Committee members adopted an amendment (0.03H) to House Bill 607 that removed proposed changes to CPI-related baseline teacher salary language, kept provisions addressing calculation of 169 days and removed a disputed master's-degree wording; the substitute was advanced on a roll call vote of 8-4.
The Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs adopted an amendment and advanced House Bill 607 after the bill sponsor narrowed the measure to keep only provisions that had committee consensus.
Representative Lewis, the bill sponsor, asked the committee to adopt amendment 0.03H and described three components originally in the bill. The sponsor said she removed a provision that would have delayed certain CPI-driven increases to baseline teacher salary grants because the committee did not have consensus. "I'm removing the one that the committee seemed to have some consternation about so that we can pass through the other two," the sponsor said.
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