By Grusendorf H.B. No. 2081 75R7544 CAS-F 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.