Bill Text: TX HB245 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a classroom teacher's lunch period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-30 - Referred to Public Education [HB245 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB245-Introduced.html
  84R2342 SRS-D
 
  By: Longoria H.B. No. 245
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a classroom teacher's lunch period.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.405(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), each classroom
  teacher or full-time librarian is entitled to at least a 45-minute
  [30-minute] lunch period free from all duties and responsibilities
  connected with the instruction and supervision of students. Each
  school district may set flexible or rotating schedules for each
  classroom teacher or full-time librarian in the district for the
  implementation of the duty-free lunch period.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
  school year.
         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.
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