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.