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  84R1709 SRS-D
 
  By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1003
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to eliminating the commissioner of education's authority
  to approve a school district's issuance of a teaching permit.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.055(e), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (e)  A person issued a school district teaching permit
  [authorized to teach] under this section may not teach in another
  school district unless that district issues a school district
  teaching permit [complies with this section]. A school district
  teaching permit remains valid unless the district issuing the
  permit revokes it for cause.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 21.055(c) and (d), Education Code, are
  repealed.
         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, 2015.