S.B. No. 1394




AN ACT

relating to employment contract requirements for certain public 
school principals.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 21.102, Education Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Section 21.202(b), a [A] person 
who is employed as a teacher by a school district for the first 
time, or who has not been employed by the district for two 
consecutive school years subsequent to August 28, 1967, shall be 
employed under a probationary contract.
	SECTION 2.  Section 21.202, Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:   
	Sec. 21.202.  PROBATIONARY CONTRACT REQUIRED.  (a)  Except 
as provided by Subsection (b), before [Before] a teacher may be 
employed under a term contract, the teacher must be employed under a 
probationary contract for the period provided by Subchapter C.
	(b)  A school district may employ a person as a principal or 
classroom teacher under a term contract if the person has 
experience as a public school principal or classroom teacher,
respectively, regardless of whether the person is being employed by 
the school district for the first time or whether a probationary 
contract would otherwise be required under Section 21.102.
	SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2003-2004 
school year.       
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.





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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1394 passed the Senate on 
April 15, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2003, by a 
viva-voce vote.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1394 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 25, 2003, by a non-record vote.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



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          Governor