By: Shapiro  S.B. No. 1644
         (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2007; March 21, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 10, 2007,
  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
  following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 10, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1644 By:  Shapiro
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the eligibility of certain teachers to serve on the
  State Board of Education and the board of directors of a regional
  education service center.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 7.101, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 7.101.  COMPOSITION.  (a)  The State Board of Education
  is composed of 15 voting members elected from districts and two
  nonvoting members, selected as provided by Subsection (c). Each
  district from which a board member is elected is composed as
  provided by law [former Sections 11.2101(b)-(t), as enacted by
  Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1991].
         (b)  Voting members [Members] of the board are elected at
  biennial general elections held in compliance with the Election
  Code.
         (c)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
  a teacher who is selected as the state teacher of the year under a
  program adopted by the agency is entitled to serve as a nonvoting
  member of the board.  A state teacher of the year serving on the
  board as provided by this section serves a two-year term beginning
  on the first day of the teacher's term as state teacher of the year.
         SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 8.003, Education Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The commissioner shall adopt rules to provide for the
  local selection, appointment, and continuity of membership of
  regional education service center boards of directors. The rules
  must provide that a teacher who is selected as a regional teacher of
  the year under a program adopted by the agency is entitled to serve
  as a nonvoting member of the board of directors for that region.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2007.
 
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