By Ritter H.B. No. 2318
76R2367 BDH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to staff development in public schools.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.451(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) The staff development provided by a school district must
1-7 be conducted in accordance with minimum standards developed by the
1-8 commissioner for program planning, preparation, and improvement.
1-9 The staff development:
1-10 (1) must include [technology training and] training
1-11 in:
1-12 (A) technology;
1-13 (B) conflict resolution and discipline
1-14 strategies;
1-15 (C) instructing students with disabilities; and
1-16 (D) implementation of Subchapter A, Chapter 37;
1-17 and
1-18 (2) may include instruction as to what is permissible
1-19 under law, including opinions of the United States Supreme Court,
1-20 in regard to prayers in public school.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2000-2001
1-22 school year.
1-23 SECTION 3. 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.