78R7305 BDH-F

By:  Menendez                                                     H.B. No. 1963



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the composition of the State Board for Educator 
Certification.  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 21.033(a), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The State Board for Educator Certification is composed 
of 15 members.  The commissioner of education shall appoint an 
employee of the agency to represent the commissioner as a nonvoting 
member.  The commissioner of higher education shall appoint an 
employee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to 
represent the commissioner as a nonvoting member.  The governor 
shall appoint a dean of a college of education in this state as a 
nonvoting member.  The remaining 12 members are appointed by the 
governor with the advice and consent of the senate, as follows:
		(1)  six [four] members must be teachers employed in 
public schools;
		(2)  two members must be public school administrators;                        
		(3)  one member must be a public school counselor; and                        
		(4)  three [five] members must be citizens, two [three] 
of whom are not and have not, in the five years preceding 
appointment, been employed by a public school district or by an 
educator preparation program in an institution of higher education 
and one [two] of whom is [are] not and has [have] not been employed 
by a public school district or by an educator preparation program in 
an institution of higher education.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  The position on the State Board for Educator 
Certification that is filled by a citizen member and has a term 
scheduled to expire February 1, 2005, is abolished September 1, 
2003.
	(b)  One of the two positions on the State Board for Educator 
Certification that is filled by a citizen member and has a term 
scheduled to expire February 1, 2007, is abolished September 1, 
2003.  The two citizen members shall draw lots to determine which 
position is abolished under this subsection.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.