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.