By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1270
97S0733/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to staff development in public schools.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 21.451, Education Code,
1-4 is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) The staff development provided by a school district must
1-6 be conducted in accordance with minimum standards developed by the
1-7 commissioner for program planning, preparation, and improvement.
1-8 The staff development:
1-9 (1) must include [technology training and] training in
1-10 technology, conflict resolution and discipline strategies, the
1-11 implementation of local policies relating to Subchapter A, Chapter
1-12 37, and strategies for instructing students with disabilities; and
1-13 (2) may include instruction as to what is permissible
1-14 under law, including opinions of the United States Supreme Court,
1-15 in regard to prayers in public school.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-17 school year.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.