By Ratliff                                      S.B. No. 1682

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the composition of advisory committees appointed by the

 1-3     State Board for Educator Certification.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 21.040, Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 21.040.  General Powers and Duties of Board.  The board

 1-8     shall:

 1-9                 (1)  supervise the executive director's performance;

1-10                 (2)  approve an operating budget for the board and make

1-11     a request for appropriations;

1-12                 (3)  appoint the members of any advisory committee to

1-13     the board;

1-14                 (4)  for each class of educator certificate, appoint an

1-15     advisory committee composed primarily of members of that class to

1-16     recommend standards for that class to the board;

1-17                 (5)  provide to its members and employees, as often as

1-18     necessary, information regarding their qualifications for office or

1-19     employment under this chapter and their responsibilities under

1-20     applicable laws relating to standards of conduct for state officers

1-21     or employees;

1-22                 (6)  develop and implement policies that clearly define

1-23     the respective responsibilities of the board and the board's staff;

1-24                 (7)  file annually with the governor and the presiding

 2-1     officer of each house of the legislature a complete and detailed

 2-2     written report, in the form and within the time provided by the

 2-3     General Appropriations Act, accounting for all funds received and

 2-4     disbursed by the board during the preceding fiscal year; and

 2-5                 (8)  execute interagency contracts to perform routine

 2-6     administrative functions.

 2-7           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-12     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-13     passage, and it is so enacted.