Bill Text: TX HB1814 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to creating a special education certification to teach students with disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-07 - Referred to Public Education [HB1814 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1814-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 1814 | |
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| relating to creating a special education certification to teach | ||
| students with disabilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.04892 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.04892. SPECIAL EDUCATION CERTIFICATION. (a) To | ||
| ensure that there are teachers with special training in providing | ||
| instruction to students with disabilities, the board shall | ||
| establish a special education certificate. | ||
| (b) To be eligible for a certificate established under this | ||
| section, a person must: | ||
| (1) satisfactorily complete the coursework for that | ||
| certificate in an educator preparation program, including a | ||
| knowledge-based and skills-based course of instruction and | ||
| field-based experience in providing instruction to students with | ||
| disabilities; | ||
| (2) perform satisfactorily on a special education | ||
| certificate examination prescribed by the board; and | ||
| (3) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the | ||
| board. | ||
| (c) If the board determines that there is a shortage of | ||
| teachers who hold special education certificates, the board may | ||
| offer incentives to teachers to become certified under this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The State Board for Educator Certification shall | ||
| propose rules: | ||
| (1) establishing requirements and prescribing an | ||
| examination for a special education certificate examination as | ||
| required by Section 21.04892, Education Code, as added by this Act; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) establishing standards to govern the approval and | ||
| renewal of approval of educator preparation programs for special | ||
| education certification. | ||
| SECTION 3. Beginning on or after January 1, 2025, a person | ||
| must satisfy the requirements for certification under Section | ||
| 21.04892, Education Code, as added by this Act, to receive a | ||
| certification in special education. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
