By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 607
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to notification by school districts to parents concerning
    1-2  a teacher teaching a subject the teacher is not certified to teach.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 11.26, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  With the advice and assistance of the state commissioner
    1-7  of education, the State Board of Education shall:
    1-8              (1)  make to the legislature biennial reports covering
    1-9  all the activities and expenditures of the Central Education
   1-10  Agency;
   1-11              (2)  adopt rules for the accreditation of schools;
   1-12              (3)  execute contracts for the purchase of
   1-13  instructional aids, including textbooks, within the limits of
   1-14  authority granted by the legislature;
   1-15              (4)  execute contracts for the investment of the
   1-16  permanent school fund, within the limits of authority granted by
   1-17  Chapter 15 of this code;
   1-18              (5)  adopt rules consistent with Chapter 13 of this
   1-19  code for certification of teachers, administrators, and other
   1-20  professional personnel customarily employed in public schools;
   1-21              (6)  adopt rules requiring school districts to notify
   1-22  parents of students of a teacher teaching a subject for which the
   1-23  teacher is not certified, unless the teacher is serving an
   1-24  internship under Section 13.035 of this code<,> or the teacher has
    2-1  at least 24 semester credit hours in the subject<, or the teacher
    2-2  is teaching under an emergency permit and is making satisfactory
    2-3  progress toward completion of a deficiency plan>;
    2-4              (7)  consider the athletic necessities and activities
    2-5  of the public schools of Texas and in advance of each regular
    2-6  session of the legislature specifically report to the governor of
    2-7  Texas the proper and lawful division of time and money to be
    2-8  devoted to athletics, holidays, legal and otherwise, and to
    2-9  educational purposes; and
   2-10              (8)  on or before May 15 of each year, formulate and
   2-11  transmit to the Texas Council on Vocational Education a list of
   2-12  evaluation topics that address developing and future concerns of
   2-13  the board in the field of technical-vocational education.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
   2-15  school year.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.