By Grusendorf                                   H.B. No. 2081

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to public school educator certification.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 21.041, Education Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

 1-6           (d)  In proposing rules under Subsection (b) specifying the

 1-7     classes of educator certificates, the board may not require for

 1-8     certification in this state any national credential.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 21.048(a), Education Code, is amended to

1-10     read as follows:

1-11           (a)  The board shall propose rules prescribing comprehensive

1-12     examinations for each class of certificate issued by the board.

1-13     The board may not require a standardized, national certification

1-14     examination for any class of certificate.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.