By Howard                                       H.B. No. 1712

      75R6186 ESH-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to rules of the State Board for Educator Certification.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 21.042, Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 21.042.  APPROVAL OF RULES.   (a)  The State Board for

 1-7     Educator Certification must submit a written copy of each rule it

 1-8     proposes to adopt to the State Board of Education for review.  The

 1-9     State Board of Education may approve, reject, or [a proposed rule

1-10     by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the board

1-11     present  and voting.  If the State Board of Education fails to

1-12     reject a proposal before the 90th day after the date on which it

1-13     receives the proposal, the proposal takes effect as a rule of the

1-14     State Board for Educator Certification as provided by Chapter 2001,

1-15     Government Code.  The State Board of Education may not] modify and

1-16     approve a rule proposed by the State Board for Educator

1-17     Certification.

1-18           (b)  A rule proposed by the State Board for Educator

1-19     Certification may not take effect unless approved by the State

1-20     Board of Education.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-22           SECTION 3.  Section 21.042, Education Code, as amended by

1-23     this Act, applies to a rule proposed on or after September 1, 1997,

1-24     by the State Board for Educator Certification.  That section also

 2-1     applies to a rule proposed before September 1, 1997, if before that

 2-2     date the State Board of Education has not acted on the rule and the

 2-3     rule has not taken effect under Section 21.042, Education Code, as

 2-4     that section existed before amendment by this Act.

 2-5           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.