By: Patrick (Senate Sponsor - Davis) H.B. No. 647
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013;
  May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to employment of persons by open-enrollment charter
  schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 12.120, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), subject to Section
  12.1059, an open-enrollment charter school may employ a person:
               (1)  as a teacher or educational aide if:
                     (A)  a school district could employ the person as
  a teacher or educational aide; or
                     (B)  a school district could employ the person as
  a teacher or educational aide if the person held the appropriate
  certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and the person
  has never held a certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21;
  or
               (2)  in a position other than a position described by
  Subdivision (1) if a school district could employ the person in that
  position.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2013.
 
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