1-1 By: West S.B. No. 1359 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 11, 1997, 1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 11, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1359 By: West 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to public school educators' requests for hearings 1-10 concerning certain proposed school district decisions. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 21.253, Education Code, is amended to 1-13 read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 21.253. REQUEST FOR HEARING. A teacher must file a 1-15 written request for a hearing under this subchapter with the 1-16 commissioner not later than the 15th day after the date the teacher 1-17 receives written notice of the proposed action. The teacher must 1-18 provide the district with a copy of the request. A copy of the 1-19 written notice of proposed action must be included with the written 1-20 request for appointment of an independent hearing examiner. The 1-21 commissioner shall adopt rules for determining whether a teacher is 1-22 entitled to a hearing conducted under this subchapter. A 1-23 jurisdictional determination by the commissioner is appealable. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-30 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-31 * * * * *