Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By: West S.B. No. 1359 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the teacher hearing process. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Subchapter F, Section 21.253, 1-4 Education Code, is amended by adding a new section so that it reads 1-5 as follows: 1-6 A teacher must file a written request for a hearing under 1-7 this subchapter with the commissioner not later than the 15th day 1-8 after the date the teacher receives written notice of the proposed 1-9 action. The teacher must provide the district with a copy of the 1-10 request. The Commissioner of Education shall exercise final 1-11 jurisdiction involving disputes relating to timeliness of teacher 1-12 appeals. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-14 school year. 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.