By:  Henderson                                         S.B. No. 860
       73R6484 ESH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the suspension of a public school teacher without pay.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 13.113, Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 13.113.  Suspension Without Pay.  (a)  The board of
    1-7  trustees of a school district may suspend a teacher without pay for
    1-8  any of the reasons set forth in Section 13.109 of this code or for
    1-9  a reason set forth in Section 13.110(1)-(5), (7), or (8) of this
   1-10  code.  The board may delegate this authority to the superintendent
   1-11  of schools.  A suspension under this subsection is effective for a
   1-12  specified period not to exceed 30 days as provided by board policy
   1-13  and may take effect only after an administrative hearing regarding
   1-14  the allegations against the teacher.
   1-15        (b)  If the board proposes to <proposed action be> discharge
   1-16  a <of the> teacher for any of the reasons set forth in Section
   1-17  13.109 of this code, the teacher may be suspended without pay by
   1-18  order of the board of trustees, or by the superintendent of schools
   1-19  if such power has been delegated to him by express regulation
   1-20  previously adopted by the board of trustees, but in such event the
   1-21  hearing shall not be delayed for more than 15 days after request
   1-22  for hearing, unless by written consent of the teacher.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.