Bill Text: TX HB2971 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the performance of public school teachers and administrators.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2971 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2971-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2971 | ||
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| relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the | ||
| performance of public school teachers and administrators. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.355, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.355. CONFIDENTIALITY. (a) A document evaluating | ||
| the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential. | ||
| (b) Subsection (a) applies to a teacher or administrator | ||
| employed by an open-enrollment charter school regardless of whether | ||
| the teacher or administrator is certified under Subchapter B. | ||
| (c) At the request of a school district or open-enrollment | ||
| charter school at which a teacher or administrator has applied for | ||
| employment, an open-enrollment charter school may give the | ||
| requesting district or school a document evaluating the performance | ||
| of a teacher or administrator employed by the school. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.355, Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies to each document described by that section, | ||
| regardless of whether the document was created before, on, or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 14, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2971 on May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
