By: Oakley H.B. No. 601 73R2848 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to exempting certain teachers from advanced degree 1-3 requirements imposed by school districts as a condition of 1-4 continued employment. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 13, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 13.914 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 13.914. LIMITATION ON ADVANCED DEGREE REQUIREMENTS. A 1-9 school district may not require a teacher to obtain a master's or 1-10 other postgraduate degree within a specific period as a condition 1-11 of continued employment with the district if the teacher would be 1-12 eligible for retirement, as defined by Section 821.001, Government 1-13 Code, before the expiration of 10 years from the date the condition 1-14 is imposed, assuming the teacher is continuously employed by the 1-15 district during that period. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.