BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 1469 |
By: Bailes |
Public Education |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties note that open-enrollment charter schools are often unable to find qualified teachers to educate students in vocational classrooms. C.S.H.B. 1469 seeks to remedy this issue by revising qualifications for certain charter school teachers.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 1469 amends the Education Code to create an exemption from the requirement that a person employed as a teacher by an open-enrollment charter school hold a baccalaureate degree for a person employed as a teacher for a noncore vocational course by a charter school that serves youth referred to or placed in a residential trade center by a local or state agency if the person has demonstrated subject matter expertise related to the subject taught and has received at least 20 hours of classroom management training, as determined by the charter school's governing body.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 1469 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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