78R3864 BDH-D
By: Campbell H.B. No. 610
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certification of educational diagnosticians by the
State Board for Educator Certification.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.003(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A person may not be employed as a teacher, teacher
intern or teacher trainee, librarian, educational aide,
administrator, educational diagnostician, or counselor by a school
district unless the person holds an appropriate certificate or
permit issued as provided by Subchapter B.
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2004, the State Board
for Educator Certification shall propose rules governing the
certification of educational diagnosticians. Section 21.003(a),
Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to the
employment of an educational diagnostician by a school district on
or after September 1, 2004.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.