By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1593

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to rules proposed by the State Board for Educator

 1-2     Certification.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is

 1-5     amended by deleting Section 21.042 as follows:

 1-6           [Sec. 21.042.  APPROVAL OF RULES.  The State Board for

 1-7     Educator Certification must submit a written copy of each rule it

 1-8     proposes to adopt to the State Board of Education for review.  The

 1-9     State Board of Education may reject a proposed rule by a vote of at

1-10     least two-thirds of the members of the board present and voting.

1-11     If the State Board of Education fails to reject a proposal before

1-12     the 90th day after the date on which it receives the proposal, the

1-13     proposal takes effect as a rule of the State Board for Educator

1-14     Certification as provided by Chapter 2001, Government Code.  The

1-15     State Board of Education may not modify a rule proposed by the

1-16     State Board for Educator Certification.]

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.