Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 396 First Substitute (2022GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Moss, J.

Final action

Governor Signed 3/24/2022

Outcome

Became law — signed by Gov. Spencer J. Cox

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• requires the State Board of Education (state board) to provide funding to local education agencies (LEAs) for additional paid professional hours for educators;
• describes the professional development LEAs will provide with state board funding; and
• requires the Executive Appropriations Committee, in preparing budget bills, to use one-time appropriations in the Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted Account for a certain amount of paid professional hours for educators.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

PAID PROFESSIONAL HOURS FOR EDUCATORS
GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Jefferson Moss
Senate Sponsor: 
Ann Millner
Cosponsors:
Nelson T. Abbott
Cheryl K. Acton
Carl R. Albrecht
Melissa G. Ballard
Stewart E. Barlow
Gay Lynn Bennion
Kera Birkeland
Brady Brammer
Joel K. Briscoe
Walt Brooks
Jefferson S. Burton
Kay J. Christofferson
Clare Collard
Jennifer Dailey-Provost
James A. Dunnigan
Steve Eliason
Joel Ferry
Matthew H. Gwynn
Stephen G. Handy
Suzanne Harrison
Timothy D. Hawkes
Jon Hawkins
Sandra Hollins
Ken Ivory
Dan N. Johnson
Marsha Judkins
Brian S. King
Michael L. Kohler
Karen Kwan
Bradley G. Last
Rosemary T. Lesser
Karianne Lisonbee
Steven J. Lund
A. Cory Maloy
Ashlee Matthews
Kelly B. Miles
Carol Spackman Moss
Calvin R. Musselman
Merrill F. Nelson
Doug Owens
Michael J. Petersen
Karen M. Peterson
Val L. Peterson
Candice B. Pierucci
Stephanie Pitcher
Susan Pulsipher
Judy Weeks Rohner
Angela Romero
Douglas V. Sagers
Mike Schultz
Travis M. Seegmiller
Rex P. Shipp
V. Lowry Snow
Robert M. Spendlove
Jeffrey D. Stenquist
Andrew Stoddard
Keven J. Stratton
Mark A. Strong
Jordan D. Teuscher
Steve Waldrip
Raymond P. Ward
Christine F. Watkins
Elizabeth Weight
Douglas R. Welton
Mark A. Wheatley
Stephen L. Whyte
Ryan D. Wilcox
Brad R. Wilson
Mike Winder
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill requires the State Board of Education to provide funding to local education
agencies for additional paid professional hours for educators.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
▸ requires the State Board of Education (state board) to provide funding to local
education agencies (LEAs) for additional paid professional hours for educators;
▸ describes the professional development LEAs will provide with state board funding;
and
▸ requires the Executive Appropriations Committee, in preparing budget bills, to use
one-time appropriations in the Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted
Account for a certain amount of paid professional hours for educators.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2023:
▸ to State Board of Education - Minimum School Program - Related to Basic
Programs, as a one-time appropriation:
• from the Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted Account,
One-time, $64,000,000.
Other Special Clauses:
This bill provides a special effective date.
Utah Code Sections Affected:
AMENDS:
53F-9-204
, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2020, Chapter 207
ENACTS:
53F-7-202
, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 
53F-7-202
 is enacted to read:
 53F-7-202.
Paid professional hours for educators.
(1) Subject to legislative appropriations, the state board shall provide funding to each
LEA to provide additional paid professional hours to the following educators in accordance
with this section:
(a) general education and special education teachers;
(b) counselors;
(c) school administration;
(d) school specialists;
(e) student support;
(f) school psychologists;
 (g) speech language pathologists; and
 (h) audiologists.
(2) The state board shall distribute funds appropriated to the state board under
Subsection 
53F-9-204
(6) to each LEA in proportion to the number of educators described in
Subsection (1) within the LEA.
(3) An LEA shall use funding under this section to provide paid professional hours
that:
(a) provide educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable students to
succeed in a well-rounded education and to meet the challenging state academic standards; and
(b) may include activities that:
(i) improve and increase an educator's:
(A) knowledge of the academic subjects the educator teaches;
(B) time to plan and prepare daily lessons based on student needs;
(C) understanding of how students learn; and
(D) ability to analyze student work and achievement from multiple sources, including
how to adjust instructional strategies, assessments, and materials based on the analysis;
(ii) are an integral part of broad school-wide and LEA-wide educational improvement
plans;
(iii) allow personalized plans for each educator to address the educator's specific needs
identified in observation or other feedback;
(iv) advance educator understanding of:
(A) effective and evidence-based instructional strategies; and
(B) strategies for improving student academic achievement or substantially increasing
the knowledge and teaching skills of educators;
(v) are aligned with, and directly related to, academic goals of the school or LEA; and
(vi) include instruction in the use of data and assessments to inform and instruct
classroom practice.
(4) An educator shall:
(a) before the first day of instruction in a given school year, create a plan, in
consultation with the educator's principal, on how the educator plans to use paid professional
hours provided under this section during the school year; and
(b) before the end of a given school year, provide a written statement to the educator's
principal of how the educator used paid professional hours provided under this section during
the school year.
Section 2. Section 
53F-9-204
 is amended to read:
53F-9-204.
Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted Account.
(1) There is created within the Uniform School Fund a restricted account known as the
"Public Education Economic Stabilization Restricted Account."
(2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), the account shall be funded from the
following revenue sources:
(i) 15% of the difference between, as determined by the Office of the Legislative Fiscal
Analyst:
(A) the estimated amount of ongoing Education Fund and Uniform School Fund
revenue available for the Legislature to appropriate for the next fiscal year; and
(B) the amount of ongoing appropriations from the Education Fund and Uniform
School Fund in the current fiscal year; and
(ii) other appropriations as the Legislature may designate.
(b) If the appropriation described in Subsection (2)(a) would cause the ongoing
appropriations to the account to exceed 11% of Uniform School Fund appropriations described
in Section 
53F-9-201.1
 for the same fiscal year, the Legislature shall appropriate only those
funds necessary to ensure that the ongoing appropriations to the account equal 11% of Uniform
School Fund appropriations for that fiscal year.
(3) Subject to the availability of ongoing appropriations to the account, in accordance
with Utah Constitution, Article X, Section 5, Subsection (4), the ongoing appropriation to the
account shall be used to fund:
(a) except for a year described in Subsection (3)(b), one-time appropriations to the
public education system; and
(b) the Minimum School Program for a year in which Education Fund revenue and
Uniform School Fund revenue are insufficient to fund:
(i) ongoing appropriations to the public education system; and
(ii) enrollment growth and inflation estimates, as defined in Section 
53F-9-201.1
.
(4) (a) The account shall earn interest.
(b) All interest earned on account money shall be deposited in the account.
(5) On or before December 31, 2023, and every three years thereafter, the Office of the
Legislative Fiscal Analyst shall:
(a) review the percentages described in Subsections (2)(a)(i) and (2)(b); and
(b) recommend to the Executive Appropriations Subcommittee any changes based on
the review described in Subsection (5)(a).
(6) In preparing budget bills for a given fiscal year, the Executive Appropriations
Committee shall make the one-time appropriations described in Subsection (3)(a) by
appropriating at least the lesser of 10% of the total amount of the one-time appropriations or
the cost of providing 32 paid professional hours for teachers in accordance with Section
53F-7-202
.
Section 3. 
Appropriation.
The following sums of money are appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2022, and ending June 30, 2023. These are additions to amounts previously appropriated for
fiscal year 2023. Under the terms and conditions of Title 63J, Chapter 1, Budgetary Procedures
Act, the Legislature appropriates the following sums of money from the funds or accounts
indicated for the use and support of the government of the state of Utah.
ITEM 1
To State Board of Education - Minimum School Program - Related to Basic School 
 Programs
From Public Education Economic Stabilization
Restricted Account, One-time
$64,000,000
Schedule of Programs:
Educator Professional Time
$64,000,000
Section 4. 
Effective date.
This bill takes effect on July 1, 2022.