By Flores H.B. No. 938
75R4520 ESH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to planning and preparation time for public school
1-3 teachers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.404, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.404. PLANNING AND PREPARATION TIME. (a) Each
1-8 classroom teacher is entitled to at least 450 minutes within each
1-9 two-week period for instructional preparation, including
1-10 parent-teacher conferences, evaluating students' work, and
1-11 planning. Unless the teacher agrees otherwise:
1-12 (1) a [A] planning and preparation period under this
1-13 section may not be less than 45 minutes within the instructional
1-14 day; and
1-15 (2) the teacher is entitled to a planning and
1-16 preparation period each day.
1-17 (b) During a planning and preparation period, a classroom
1-18 teacher may not be required to participate in any other activity.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-20 school year.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.