82R9048 EAH-F
 
  By: Smith of Tarrant H.B. No. 2971
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the
  performance of public school teachers and administrators.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.355, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 21.355.  CONFIDENTIALITY. A document evaluating the
  performance of a teacher or administrator, including a teacher or
  administrator employed by an open-enrollment charter school, is
  confidential.
         SECTION 2.  Section 21.355, Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies to each document described by that section,
  regardless of whether the document was created before, on, or after
  the effective date of this Act.
         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, 2011.