By: Parker S.B. No. 607
73R2307 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to notification by school districts to parents concerning
1-3 a teacher teaching a subject the teacher is not certified to teach.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.26(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (c) With the advice and assistance of the state commissioner
1-8 of education, the State Board of Education shall:
1-9 (1) make to the legislature biennial reports covering
1-10 all the activities and expenditures of the Central Education
1-11 Agency;
1-12 (2) adopt rules for the accreditation of schools;
1-13 (3) execute contracts for the purchase of
1-14 instructional aids, including textbooks, within the limits of
1-15 authority granted by the legislature;
1-16 (4) execute contracts for the investment of the
1-17 permanent school fund, within the limits of authority granted by
1-18 Chapter 15 of this code;
1-19 (5) adopt rules consistent with Chapter 13 of this
1-20 code for certification of teachers, administrators, and other
1-21 professional personnel customarily employed in public schools;
1-22 (6) adopt rules requiring school districts to notify
1-23 parents of students of a teacher teaching a subject for which the
1-24 teacher is not certified, unless the teacher is serving an
2-1 internship under Section 13.035 of this code<,> or the teacher has
2-2 at least 24 semester credit hours in the subject<, or the teacher
2-3 is teaching under an emergency permit and is making satisfactory
2-4 progress toward completion of a deficiency plan>;
2-5 (7) consider the athletic necessities and activities
2-6 of the public schools of Texas and in advance of each regular
2-7 session of the legislature specifically report to the governor of
2-8 Texas the proper and lawful division of time and money to be
2-9 devoted to athletics, holidays, legal and otherwise, and to
2-10 educational purposes; and
2-11 (8) on or before May 15 of each year, formulate and
2-12 transmit to the Texas Council on Vocational Education a list of
2-13 evaluation topics that address developing and future concerns of
2-14 the board in the field of technical-vocational education.
2-15 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
2-16 school year.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.