By:  Zaffirini                                        S.B. No. 1255
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to a deadline for teacher resignation from a term contract
    1-2  without penalty.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 21.2071 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 21.2071.  RESIGNATIONS.  (a)  A teacher employed under a
    1-7  term contract with a school district may relinquish the teaching
    1-8  position and leave the employment of the district at the end of a
    1-9  school year without penalty by filing a written resignation with
   1-10  the board of trustees of the district as provided by this
   1-11  subsection.  The resignation must be addressed to the board and
   1-12  filed not later than the 45th day before the first day of the
   1-13  following school year.  A written resignation mailed by prepaid
   1-14  certified or registered mail to the district is considered filed at
   1-15  the time of mailing.
   1-16        (b)  A teacher employed under a term contract may resign,
   1-17  with the consent of the board of trustees of the district employing
   1-18  the teacher, at any other time mutually agreeable.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
   1-20  school year.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.