Bill Text: TX HB3628 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to creating a special education certification to teach students with disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3628 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3628-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Goodwin, Howard, González of El Paso, | H.B. No. 3628 | ||
Talarico | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3628: | |||
By: Allen | C.S.H.B. No. 3628 |
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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 21.04891 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.04891. 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 course work or | ||
training for that certificate in an educator preparation program, | ||
including a knowledge-based and skills-based course of instruction | ||
or 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. | ||
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 21.04891, 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, 2021, a person | ||
must satisfy the requirements for certification under Section | ||
21.04891, 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, 2019. |