By: Harris of Tarrant S.B. No. 1344
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the approval of teacher and staff appointments.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 13.352, Education Code, is amended by
1-4 adding a new Subsection (e) and redesignating existing Subsections
1-5 (e) and (f) as Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
1-6 (e) The commissioner of education by rule may provide
1-7 procedures for alternative methods of approval of teacher and staff
1-8 appointments in cases in which the transfer of campus personnel is
1-9 necessary to protect contractual obligations and to ensure
1-10 financial efficiency.
1-11 (f) The board of trustees of each district shall adopt a
1-12 policy that provides for selected principals to periodically give
1-13 verbal reports to the board.
1-14 (g)<(f)> The board of trustees of a school district shall
1-15 adopt a policy for the selection of a campus principal that
1-16 includes qualifications required for that position.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.