Bill Text: TX HB2223 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2223 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to training academies for public school teachers who provide reading comprehension instruction to students in grades four and five.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-13 - Referred to Public Education [HB2223 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2223-Introduced.html

	84R9601 KKA-D

	By: Deshotel	H.B. No. 2223



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to training academies for public school teachers who
	provide reading comprehension instruction to students in grades
	four and five.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 21.4554 to read as follows:
	Sec. 21.4554. READING-TO-LEARN ACADEMIES. (a) The
	commissioner shall develop and make available reading-to-learn
	academies for teachers who provide reading comprehension
	instruction to students at the fourth or fifth grade level.
	(b) A reading-to-learn academy developed under this section
	must:
	(1) include effective instructional practices that
	promote student development of reading comprehension and
	inferential and critical thinking; and
	(2) provide participating teachers with access to the
	academy training materials through the Internet after the teachers
	attend the academy.
	(c) The commissioner shall adopt criteria for selecting
	teachers who may attend a reading-to-learn academy.
	(d) From funds appropriated for that purpose, a teacher who
	attends a reading-to-learn academy is entitled to receive a stipend
	in the amount determined by the commissioner to cover expenses of
	attending the academy. A stipend received under this subsection is
	not considered in determining whether a district is paying the
	teacher the minimum monthly salary under Section 21.402.
	SECTION 2. 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.