By Shapleigh S.B. No. 912 76R7283 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to school district plans to ensure that only appropriately 1-3 certified persons teach in the district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.057 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.057. PLAN FOR CERTIFIED TEACHERS. (a) Each school 1-8 district shall develop and implement a plan to enable the district 1-9 to, at the end of a five-year period, employ as a teacher only a 1-10 person who holds: 1-11 (1) a certificate issued under this subchapter; and 1-12 (2) the appropriate certificate issued under this 1-13 subchapter for each class or course the person teaches. 1-14 (b) A district plan may provide for the district to use, on 1-15 a short-term basis, substitute teachers who do not hold a 1-16 certificate issued under this subchapter. 1-17 (c) This section expires September 1, 2006. 1-18 SECTION 2. Each school district shall implement a plan under 1-19 Section 21.057, Education Code, as added by this Act, not later 1-20 than September 1, 2000. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.