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