By Dukes H.B. No. 618
76R3385 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to written notice from school districts to parents on
1-3 whether teachers are certified by the state.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 28.022, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending the heading and Subsection (a) to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 28.022. NOTICE TO PARENT OF STUDENT [UNSATISFACTORY]
1-8 PERFORMANCE. (a) The board of trustees of each school district
1-9 shall adopt a policy that:
1-10 (1) provides for a conference between parents and
1-11 teachers; and
1-12 (2) requires the district, at least once every 12
1-13 weeks, to give written notice to a parent of:
1-14 (A) a student's performance in each class or
1-15 subject; and
1-16 (B) the certification status under Subchapter B,
1-17 Chapter 21, of the student's teacher in each class or subject.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-19 school year.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 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.