By: West S.B. No. 1359 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to public school educators' requests for hearings 1-2 concerning certain proposed school district decisions. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.253, Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.253. REQUEST FOR HEARING. A teacher must file a 1-7 written request for a hearing under this subchapter with the 1-8 commissioner not later than the 15th day after the date the teacher 1-9 receives written notice of the proposed action. The teacher must 1-10 provide the district with a copy of the request. A copy of the 1-11 written notice of proposed action must be included with the written 1-12 request for appointment of an independent hearing examiner. The 1-13 commissioner shall adopt rules for determining whether a teacher is 1-14 entitled to a hearing conducted under this subchapter. A 1-15 jurisdictional determination by the commissioner is appealable. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.