By Johnson                                            H.B. No. 2343
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a deadline for teacher resignation from a term contract
    1-3  without penalty and salary protection for teachers in districts
    1-4  that do not set a salary schedule prior to the resignation date.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 21.2031 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 21.2031.  RESIGNATIONS.
    1-9              (a)  Any teacher holding a term contract with any
   1-10  school district may relinquish the position and leave the
   1-11  employment of the district at the end of any school year without
   1-12  penalty by written resignation addressed to and filed with the
   1-13  board of trustees no less than 30 days prior to the beginning of
   1-14  the ensuing school year.  A written resignation mailed by prepaid
   1-15  certified or registered mail to the superintendent of schools of
   1-16  the district at the post office address of the district shall be
   1-17  considered filed at the time of mailing.
   1-18              (b)  Any teacher holding a term contract may resign,
   1-19  with the consent of the board of trustees of the employing school
   1-20  district, at any other time mutually agreeable.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  Section 16.055, Education Code, is amended by the
   1-22  addition of Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-23              (d)  If a school district fails to set teacher salaries
    2-1  prior to the time before which teachers in the district may resign
    2-2  without penalty, each teacher shall be entitled to a salary of no
    2-3  less than the salary the teacher received in the previous school
    2-4  year.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.