1-1  By:  Harris of Tarrant                                S.B. No. 1341
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 5, 1993; April 6, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 1993,
    1-4  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 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. 1341       By:  Harris of Tarrant
   1-20                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-21                                AN ACT
   1-22  relating to the duties of the superintendent of a school district.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Section 13.351, Education Code, is amended by
   1-25  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-26        (c)  The duties of the superintendent shall include:
   1-27              (1)  assuming administrative responsibility and
   1-28  leadership for the planning, operation, and evaluation of the
   1-29  education programs, services, and facilities of the district and
   1-30  for the annual performance appraisal of the district's staff;
   1-31              (2)  assuming administrative authority and
   1-32  responsibility for the assignment and evaluation of personnel of
   1-33  the district other than the superintendent and making
   1-34  recommendations regarding the selection, promotion, and dismissal
   1-35  of the personnel;
   1-36              (3)  managing the daily operation of the district as
   1-37  its chief executive officer;
   1-38              (4)  causing to be prepared a budget covering all
   1-39  estimated revenue and proposed expenditures of the district for the
   1-40  succeeding fiscal year, according to generally accepted accounting
   1-41  principles, the rules and regulations established by the State
   1-42  Board of Education, and policies adopted by the board of trustees,
   1-43  and in accordance with the provisions of Subchapter C, Chapter 23,
   1-44  Education Code;
   1-45              (5)  preparing recommendations for policies to be
   1-46  established by the board of trustees and overseeing the
   1-47  implementation of established policies;
   1-48              (6)  developing or causing the development of
   1-49  appropriate administrative regulations to implement policies
   1-50  established by the board of trustees;
   1-51              (7)  providing leadership for the attainment of student
   1-52  performance standards in the district based on the indicators
   1-53  adopted under Section 21.7531 of this code and other indicators
   1-54  adopted by the State Board of Education or the district's board of
   1-55  trustees; and
   1-56              (8)  performing any other duties assigned by the action
   1-57  of the board of trustees of the district.
   1-58        SECTION 2.  Section 23.43, Education Code, is amended to read
   1-59  as follows:
   1-60        Sec. 23.43.  DEPUTY BUDGET OFFICER.  To assist him in the
   1-61  professional and technical phases of budget preparation, the
   1-62  president of the board of trustees shall designate as deputy budget
   1-63  officer <the business manager, if any, of the district, or> the
   1-64  superintendent of schools; and if the district has no
   1-65  superintendent, the chief administrative employee of the district
   1-66  shall be designated as deputy budget officer.
   1-67        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-68  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.
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    2-7                                                         Austin,
    2-8  Texas
    2-9                                                         April 29, 1993
   2-10  Hon. Bob Bullock
   2-11  President of the Senate
   2-12  Sir:
   2-13  We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No.
   2-14  1341, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   2-15  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
   2-16  pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
   2-17  pass and be printed.
   2-18                                                         Ratliff,
   2-19  Chairman
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   2-21                               WITNESSES
   2-22                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   2-23  ___________________________________________________________________
   2-24  Name:  Bobbie Eddins                             x
   2-25  Representing:  TX Assoc. of Sec. Sch.Principa
   2-26  City:  Austin
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   2-28  Name:  Louuie Hollingsworth                                    x
   2-29  Representing:  TX Classroom Teachers Assn.
   2-30  City:  Austin
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   2-32  Name:  Dr. Mike Moses                            x
   2-33  Representing:  TX Assn of School Admin.
   2-34  City:  Lubbock
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