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Starting in July 2026, this bill expands two existing school funding programs — one that provides salary supplements for hard-to-fill educator positions, and one that provides funds for classroom supplies — to explicitly include speech-language pathologists and speech-language technicians who work in public schools. Currently, these programs are written around classroom teachers, but this bill updates the legal definitions so that school-based speech-language professionals qualify for the same financial benefits. School-based speech-language pathologists and technicians become eligible for supply funding of $250–$500 per year and for salary supplements if their school district designates their position as a hard-to-fill role.