By Grusendorf                                         H.B. No. 1570
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to public school educator certification.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 21.041, Education Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  In proposing rules under Subsection (b) specifying the
 1-7     classes of educator certificates, the board may not require for
 1-8     certification in this state any national credential.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 21.048(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-10     read as follows:
1-11           (a)  The board shall propose rules prescribing comprehensive
1-12     examinations for each class of certificate issued by the board.
1-13     The board may not require a standardized, national certification
1-14     examination for any class of certificate.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.