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78R10739 CAS-D


By:  Crownover                                                    H.B. No. 1113

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1113:                                   

By:  Madden                                                   C.S.H.B. No. 1113



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to returning a public school teacher to probationary 
contract status.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 21.106, Education Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read as 
follows:
	(b)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] teacher may 
agree to be returned to probationary contract status only after 
receiving written notice that the board of trustees of the school 
district has [of the] proposed discharge, termination, or 
nonrenewal.
	(d)  A teacher may agree to be returned to probationary 
contract status after receiving written notice of the 
superintendent's intent to recommend discharge, termination, or 
nonrenewal.  Notice under this subsection must inform the teacher 
of the school district's offer to return the teacher to 
probationary contract status, the period during which the teacher 
may consider the offer, and the teacher's right to seek counsel.  
The district must provide the teacher at least three business days 
after the date the teacher receives notice under this subsection to 
agree to be returned to probationary contract status.  This 
subsection does not require a superintendent to provide notice of 
an intent to recommend discharge, termination, or nonrenewal.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.