| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the earliest day a school district may require a teacher |
|
|
to report for service and information regarding required teacher |
|
|
attendance on noninstructional days. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Sections 21.010 and 21.011 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 21.010. FIRST DAY OF TEACHER SERVICE. A school |
|
|
district may not require a teacher to report for service at the |
|
|
beginning of a school year earlier than the seventh business day |
|
|
before the first day that instruction will be provided to students. |
|
|
Sec. 21.011. NOTICE OF REQUIRED MEETINGS OR TRAINING. Not |
|
|
later than the last day for a teacher's resignation under Section |
|
|
21.105, 21.160, or 21.210, a school district shall notify each |
|
|
district teacher of any meetings or training that the teacher would |
|
|
be required to attend that is scheduled to occur on |
|
|
noninstructional days in the following school year. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Sections 21.010 and 21.011, Education Code, as |
|
|
added by this Act, apply beginning with the 2018-2019 school year. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |