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.