By: Rodriguez H.B. No. 1245 73R5453 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to selection of substitute teachers to teach in public 1-3 schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 13, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 13.914 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13.914. SELECTION OF SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. (a) In 1-8 selecting from among applicants to be placed on a school district's 1-9 list of substitute teachers, a school district shall give 1-10 preference to an individual who has completed 60 or more hours of 1-11 higher education course work. 1-12 (b) A school district must offer or attempt to offer the 1-13 opportunity to serve as a substitute teacher to each person on its 1-14 list of substitute teachers who has completed 60 or more hours of 1-15 higher education course work before the district may offer or 1-16 attempt to offer the opportunity to an individual who has completed 1-17 fewer than 60 hours of higher education course work. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 1-19 school year. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.