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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to eliminating the commissioner of education's authority  | 
      
      
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        to approve a school district's issuance of a teaching permit. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 21.055(e), Education Code, is amended to  | 
      
      
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        read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (e)  A person issued a school district teaching permit  | 
      
      
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        [authorized to teach] under this section may not teach in another  | 
      
      
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        school district unless that district issues a school district  | 
      
      
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        teaching permit [complies with this section].  A school district  | 
      
      
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        teaching permit remains valid unless the district issuing the  | 
      
      
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        permit revokes it for cause. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Sections 21.055(c) and (d), Education Code, are  | 
      
      
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        repealed. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |