1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1255
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 16, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 22, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 22, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1255 By: Zaffirini
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to a deadline for teacher resignation from a term contract
1-23 without penalty.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
1-26 amended by adding Section 21.2071 to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 21.2071. RESIGNATIONS. (a) A teacher employed under a
1-28 term contract with a school district may relinquish the teaching
1-29 position and leave the employment of the district at the end of a
1-30 school year without penalty by filing a written resignation with
1-31 the board of trustees of the district as provided by this
1-32 subsection. The resignation must be addressed to the board and
1-33 filed not later than the 45th day before the first day of the
1-34 following school year. A written resignation mailed by prepaid
1-35 certified or registered mail to the district is considered filed at
1-36 the time of mailing.
1-37 (b) A teacher employed under a term contract may resign,
1-38 with the consent of the board of trustees of the district employing
1-39 the teacher, at any other time mutually agreeable.
1-40 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-41 school year.
1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-49 * * * * *
1-50 Austin,
1-51 Texas
1-52 April 22, 1993
1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-54 President of the Senate
1-55 Sir:
1-56 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No.
1-57 1255, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-58 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
1-59 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
1-60 pass and be printed.
1-61 Ratliff,
1-62 Chairman
1-63 * * * * *
1-64 WITNESSES
1-65 FOR AGAINST ON
1-66 ___________________________________________________________________
1-67 Name: Walter Hinojosa x
1-68 Representing: T F T,A F F , A F C-CIO
2-1 City: Austin
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2-3 Name: Lamont Veatch x
2-4 Representing: Tx Assn of Sec Schl Principls
2-5 City: Austin
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2-7 Name: Lonnie Hollingsworth, Jr. x
2-8 Representing: Tx Classroom Assn.
2-9 City: Austin
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2-11 Name: Jack Kelly x
2-12 Representing: TSTA
2-13 City: Austin
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