JLM S.B. 520 75(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


PUBLIC EDUCATION
S.B. 520
By: Bivins (Sadler)
5-18-97
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND 

Currently, the governor is required to appoint 12 members to the State
Board for Educator Certification. Five members appointed must be citizens
who are not and have not been employed by certain entities. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 520 requires five of the 12 members appointed to the
State Board for Educator Certification to not be currently employed and to
not have been employed by certain entities, in the five years preceding
the appointment. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 21.033(a), Education Code, to provide that five
members of the State Board for Educator Certification appointed by the
governor must be citizens who are not and have not been, in the five years
preceding appointment, employed by a public school district or by an
educator preparation program in an institution of higher education. 

SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.