By Pitts H.B. No. 451
76R2366 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to termination of the employment of a public school
1-3 teacher employed under a probationary contract.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.103, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.103. PROBATIONARY CONTRACT: TERMINATION. (a) The
1-8 board of trustees of a school district may terminate the employment
1-9 of a teacher employed under a probationary contract at the end of
1-10 the contract period if in the board's judgment the best interests
1-11 of the district will be served by terminating the employment. The
1-12 board of trustees must give notice of its decision [intention] to
1-13 terminate the employment to the teacher not later than the 45th day
1-14 before the last day of instruction required under the contract.
1-15 The board's decision is final and may not be appealed.
1-16 (b) If the board of trustees fails to give the notice of its
1-17 decision [intention] to terminate the teacher's employment within
1-18 the time prescribed by Subsection (a), the board must employ the
1-19 probationary teacher in the same capacity under:
1-20 (1) a probationary contract for the following school
1-21 year, if the teacher has been employed by the district under a
1-22 probationary contract for less than three consecutive school years;
1-23 or
1-24 (2) a continuing or term contract, according to
2-1 district policy, if the teacher has been employed by the district
2-2 under a probationary contract for three consecutive school years.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.