By Seaman                                              H.B. No. 478
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain information that school districts must provide
 1-3     to teachers and administrators.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 21.204(d), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The board of trustees shall provide each teacher with a
 1-8     copy of the teacher's contract with the school district and, on the
 1-9     teacher's request, a copy of the board's employment policies.  At
1-10     each school in the district, the board shall make a copy of the
1-11     board's employment policies available for inspection at a
1-12     reasonable time on request.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 37.018, Education Code, is amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 37.018.  INFORMATION FOR EDUCATORS.  Each school
1-16     district shall, on the request of a teacher or administrator,
1-17     provide the [each] teacher or [and] administrator with:
1-18                 (1)  a copy of this subchapter; and
1-19                 (2)  [with] a copy of the local policy relating to this
1-20     subchapter.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-22     school year.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.