An act relating to teacher compensation, the official text

1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 2251            By: Waldron

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to teacher compensation; providing

    for increase in compensation of classroom teachers;

8   prescribing amount of increase; providing increase as

    additional to certain other compensation and fringe

9   benefits; defining term; providing for codification;

    providing an effective date; and declaring an

10  emergency.

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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

14  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 18-114.16 of Title 70, unless

16 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

17  A. Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each school

18 district shall provide to every classroom teacher a salary increase

19 of twenty percent (20%) over the base amount the employee earned

20 during the 2024-2025 school year if the classroom teacher is

21 employed by the same school district for the 2025-2026 school year.

22 If a classroom teacher is a new employee of the school district, his

23 or her starting salary shall be a twenty-percent increase from the

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1 starting salary for the same position during the 2024-2025 school

2 year.

3   B. The increase prescribed by this section shall be in addition

4 to any other compensation, increase in compensation, and fringe

5 benefits provided by the school district or state, or mandated by

6 law or collective bargaining agreement, unless the hours or duties

7 of the classroom teacher are reduced proportionately.

8   C. For purposes of this section, "classroom teacher" means a

9 teacher as defined in paragraph 1 of Section 1-116 of Title 70 of

10 the Oklahoma Statutes, except for superintendents as defined in

11 paragraph 2 of Section 1-116 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

12  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2025.

13  SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation

14 of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby

15 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and

16 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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