Bill Text: TX HB2775 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for educator preparation program support for certain candidates for certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2775 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2775-Introduced.html
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By: Phelan | H.B. No. 2775 |
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relating to requirements for educator preparation program support | ||
for certain candidates for certification. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.044, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows: | ||
(f-1) Board rules addressing ongoing educator preparation | ||
program support for a candidate seeking certification in a | ||
certification class other than classroom teacher may not require | ||
that an educator preparation program conduct one or more formal | ||
observations of the candidate on the candidate's site in a | ||
face-to-face setting. The rules must permit each required formal | ||
observation to occur on the candidate's site or through use of | ||
electronic transmission or other video-based or technology-based | ||
method. | ||
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, 2017. |