By Luna                                                S.B. No. 957
       74R5265 KKA-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application of the term contract nonrenewal act to
    1-3  registered nurses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.201(1), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7              (1)  "Teacher" means:
    1-8                    (A)  a superintendent;<,>
    1-9                    (B)  a principal;<,>
   1-10                    (C)  a supervisor;<,>
   1-11                    (D)  a classroom teacher;<,>
   1-12                    (E)  a counselor;<,>
   1-13                    (F)  a registered nurse; or
   1-14                    (G)  any other full-time professional employee,
   1-15  except a paraprofessional employee <personnel>, who is required to
   1-16  hold a valid certificate or teaching permit.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        (b)  Subchapter G, Chapter 21, Education Code, as amended by
   1-19  this Act, applies to registered nurses employed on the effective
   1-20  date of this Act under a term contract regardless of when the
   1-21  employment contract was executed.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  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.