HI HB613

Appropriates $144,656,637 from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief Fund to the Department of Education for fiscal year 2020-2021, including allocations for teacher pay differentials ($32.5 million), school food services ($21 million), summer programs ($11.8 million), and school repairs and maintenance ($4.7 million for FY2021-2022 and FY2022-2023).

Appropriates $412,328,764 from the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief Fund to the Department of Education for fiscal year 2021-2022, with major allocations for addressing learning loss ($76.3 million), safe school reopening including indoor air quality ($110 million), and complex area school-level programming ($100.3 million).

Requires the Department of Education to maintain education funding at specified levels from fiscal years 2017-2019 to comply with federal "maintenance of effort" provisions and mandates that department employees subject to collective bargaining agreements continue receiving pay.

Allocates funds for educator workforce stabilization including a $2,200 one-time payment per full-time and half-time teacher ($29.7 million) and alternative teacher licensure programs ($1 million).

Restricts superintendent pay increases to only take effect after department heads receive raises recommended by the Commission on Salaries and specifies the effective date as July 1, 2021.