By: Schechter H.B. No. 1762 73R6212 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of hearing officers in teacher hearings. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 13.112(c), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (c) Within 10 days after request for hearing made by the 1-7 teacher, the board of trustees shall fix a time and place of 1-8 hearing, which shall be held before the proposed action shall be 1-9 effective. Such hearing shall be public unless the teacher 1-10 requests in writing that it be private. Such hearing may be 1-11 conducted by a hearing officer designated by the board of trustees. 1-12 The record of the hearing by the hearing officer and the 1-13 recommendation of the superintendent shall be forwarded to the 1-14 board of trustees for action. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.