H.B. No. 4435
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirement for participation by certain principals
  in the school leadership pilot program for principals.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11.203(d), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (d)  A principal who was employed as a principal at a campus
  that was [of a campus] rated academically unacceptable during the
  preceding school year [, as well as any person employed to replace
  that principal,] shall participate in the program and complete the
  program requirements not later than a date determined by the
  commissioner.
         SECTION 2.  Section 11.203(d), Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies only to a principal employed at a school that is
  rated academically unacceptable during the 2008-2009 school year.
         SECTION 3.  It is the intent of the legislature that the
  passage of H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2009, with any amendments to Section 11.203(d), Education
  Code, and the amendments made by this Act shall be harmonized, if
  possible, as provided by Section 311.025(b), Government Code, so
  that effect may be given to each. If amendments made to Section
  11.203(d), Education Code, by H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, and the amendments to Section
  11.203(d), Education Code, made by this Act are irreconcilable, it
  is the intent of the legislature that H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, prevail, regardless of the
  relative dates of enactment of this Act and H.B. No. 3, Acts of the
  81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, but only to the extent
  that any differences are irreconcilable.
         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, 2009.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4435 was passed by the House on April
  29, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 100, Nays 40, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 4435 on May 29, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 123, Nays 21,
  1 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 4435 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 27, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor