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Committee advances STARS Act (HB 252) with amendments to teacher pay and data collection
Summary
After two sponsor amendments and one failed amendment on compression percentages, the committee passed House Bill 252 as amended, a package (STARS Act) to raise teacher starting pay, add incentives, and adjust data collection and timing for quality educator payments.
Vice Chair Greg moved House Bill 252 (the STARS Act) for committee consideration. Staff described the bill as a broad school‑funding package that enhances educator incentives and housing‑cost budget authority and includes a future‑ready payment and a quality educator payment.
The committee adopted a sponsor amendment (252.001) by voice vote that delayed the Future Ready payment from FY27 to FY28, allowed districts to count an additional staff classification for quality educator payment purposes, authorized electronic forms for data collection, and aligned data‑collection deadlines. Vice Chair Romano offered a separate amendment to slow the compression schedule for salary compression; that amendment failed in a roll‑call vote (6 ayes, 9 no). After brief member remarks in support of raising starting teacher pay, the committee approved HB 252 as once amended and passed it to the House floor.
