By: Stiles H.B. No. 673
73R2046 CAS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to chief school business administrators of school
1-3 districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 11.2092 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 11.2092. CHIEF SCHOOL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATORS. (a)
1-8 Each school district shall employ a certified chief school business
1-9 administrator to manage the district's finances.
1-10 (b) The Central Education Agency shall develop a procedure
1-11 for certification of chief school business administrators. The
1-12 procedure shall provide for issuance of a certificate based on
1-13 satisfactory completion of a training program and satisfactory
1-14 performance on an examination, approved by the commissioner of
1-15 education. The commissioner may approve a training program
1-16 provided by a professional association.
1-17 (c) The agency also shall establish standards an individual
1-18 must satisfy to be eligible for certification as a chief school
1-19 business administrator, including a requirement that an individual
1-20 must have earned a bachelor's degree.
1-21 (d) In addition, the agency shall establish a procedure and
1-22 eligibility standards for renewal of certification.
1-23 (e) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to
1-24 implement the procedure and standards the agency develops. The
2-1 rules also shall establish a fee for certification that is
2-2 reasonable and designed to cover the administrative costs of
2-3 reviewing the credentials of the applicant and issuing or renewing
2-4 the certificate. The board may adjust the amount of the fee, as
2-5 necessary, and may adopt a lower fee for renewal than for issuance
2-6 of a certificate.
2-7 (f) The commissioner may suspend or cancel the certificate
2-8 of a chief school business administrator if the chief school
2-9 business administrator:
2-10 (1) conducts the business of the district in violation
2-11 of local, state, or federal law;
2-12 (2) abandons a written employment contract entered
2-13 into with the board of trustees of a district without good cause or
2-14 without the consent of the board; or
2-15 (3) acts in violation of or fails to act as provided
2-16 by State Board of Education rule for retaining certification.
2-17 (g) Before the commissioner suspends or cancels a
2-18 certificate under Subsection (f) of this section, the commissioner
2-19 must give the holder of the certificate written notice and the
2-20 opportunity for a hearing. After a hearing at which the
2-21 commissioner suspends or cancels the certificate, the
2-22 commissioner's decision may be appealed to a district court in
2-23 Travis County.
2-24 (h) Not earlier than the first anniversary of the date on
2-25 which the decision to revoke or suspend a certificate becomes
2-26 final, an individual formerly certified as a chief school business
2-27 administrator may request the commissioner to reinstate the
3-1 certificate. If the commissioner finds good cause exists, the
3-2 commissioner may reinstate the certificate. If the commissioner
3-3 refuses to reinstate the certificate, the individual may appeal the
3-4 commissioner's decision to a district court in Travis County.
3-5 SECTION 2. Section 21.201(1), Education Code, is amended to
3-6 read as follows:
3-7 (1) "Teacher" means a superintendent, principal,
3-8 supervisor, classroom teacher, counselor, or other full-time
3-9 professional employee, except a paraprofessional employee or a
3-10 chief school business administrator <personnel>, who is required to
3-11 hold a valid certificate or teaching permit.
3-12 SECTION 3. An individual responsible for managing the
3-13 finances of a school district on the effective date of this Act
3-14 shall be certified as a chief school business administrator by the
3-15 commissioner of education if the board of trustees of the district
3-16 employing the individual recommends to the commissioner that the
3-17 individual be certified.
3-18 SECTION 4. Each school district shall employ a chief school
3-19 business administrator as required by Section 11.2092, Education
3-20 Code, as added by this Act, not later than September 1, 1995.
3-21 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-27 passage, and it is so enacted.