Bill Text: TX HB244 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the lunch period for classroom teachers at the middle school, junior high school, or high school grade level.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-30 - Referred to Public Education [HB244 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB244-Introduced.html
| 84R2343 SRS-D | ||
| By: Longoria | H.B. No. 244 | |
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| relating to the lunch period for classroom teachers at the middle | ||
| school, junior high school, or high school grade level. | ||
| 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 at the elementary school level is | ||
| entitled to at least a 30-minute lunch period free from all duties | ||
| and responsibilities connected with the instruction and | ||
| supervision of students. Except as provided by Subsection (c), | ||
| each classroom teacher or full-time librarian at the middle school, | ||
| junior high school, or high school grade level is entitled to at | ||
| least a 45-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. | ||
