By Crownover H.B. No. 2060
77R1224 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to returning a public school teacher to probationary
1-3 contract status.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 21.106(a) and (b), Education Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) In lieu of discharging a teacher employed under a
1-8 continuing contract, terminating a teacher employed under a term
1-9 contract, or not renewing a teacher's term contract, a school
1-10 district may[, with the written consent of the teacher,] return the
1-11 teacher to probationary contract status:
1-12 (1) with the teacher's written consent if the teacher
1-13 receives prior[.]
1-14 [(b) A teacher may agree to be returned to probationary
1-15 contract status only after receiving] written notice of the
1-16 proposed discharge, termination, or nonrenewal; or
1-17 (2) without the teacher's written consent if, for two
1-18 consecutive school years, the teacher is designated as a "teacher
1-19 in need of assistance" under the commissioner's recommended
1-20 appraisal process adopted under Section 21.351.
1-21 (b) Probationary contract status under Subsection (a)(2)
1-22 begins the school year following the school year for which the
1-23 teacher receives the second appraisal as a "teacher in need of
1-24 assistance."
2-1 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
2-2 (b) Section 21.106(a)(2), Education Code, as added by this
2-3 Act, applies only to an appraisal concerning public school teacher
2-4 performance during the 2001-2002 school year or a later school
2-5 year.