Amend HB 4064 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In the recital to SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, line 39), strike "Subsection (c-2)" and substitute "Subsections (c-2), (h), (i), and (j)".
(2) In SECTION 2 of the bill, immediately following added Section 21.044(c-2), Education Code (page 1, between lines 52 and 53), insert the following:
(h) In proposing rules under this section, the board must permit a program to comply with at least three of any field supervisor visit requirements for a candidate for certification as a classroom teacher through visits provided by video, the Internet, or another remote technological method if the program also provides at least two in-person visits. The board may not require more than five support visits by a field supervisor for a candidate for certification as a classroom teacher during the course of an internship.
(i) Subject to Subsection (j), a video or audio recording of a classroom recorded for purposes of a field supervisor visit described by Subsection (h) is confidential, may only be used for teacher training by an educator preparation program, and may only be viewed by the candidate recorded, a school district employee with a supervisory role with respect to the candidate, an employee of the educator preparation program, or another person authorized by law.
(j) Subsection (i) does not limit the access of a student's parent to a record regarding the student under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g) or other law.
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 26.009(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) An employee of a school district is not required to obtain the consent of a child's parent before the employee may make a videotape of a child or authorize the recording of a child's voice if the videotape or voice recording is to be used only for:
(1) purposes of safety, including the maintenance of order and discipline in common areas of the school or on school buses;
(2) a purpose related to a cocurricular or extracurricular activity;
(3) a purpose related to regular classroom instruction;
(4) media coverage of the school; [or]
(5) a purpose related to the promotion of student safety under Section 29.022; or
(6) a purpose related to the provision of support to a beginning teacher by a field supervisor under Section 21.045.