Bill Text: TX HB3793 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the registry maintained by the Texas Education Agency of persons who are not eligible to be employed by public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB3793 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3793-Introduced.html
  88R12572 CXP-D
 
  By: Lopez of Cameron H.B. No. 3793
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the registry maintained by the Texas Education Agency
  of persons who are not eligible to be employed by public schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 22.092(c), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  The registry maintained under this section must list the
  following persons as not eligible to be employed by public schools:
               (1)  a person determined by the agency under Section
  22.0832 as a person who would not be eligible for educator
  certification under Subchapter B, Chapter 21;
               (2)  a person determined by the agency to be not
  eligible for employment based on the person's criminal history
  record information review, as provided by Section 22.0833;
               (3)  a person who is not eligible for employment based
  on criminal history record information received by the agency under
  Section 21.058(b);
               (4)  a person whose certification or permit issued
  under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, is revoked or whose application for
  a certificate or permit under that subchapter is denied by the State
  Board for Educator Certification on a finding that the person
  engaged in misconduct described by Section 21.006(b)(2)(A) or
  (A-1); and
               (5)  a person who is determined by the commissioner
  under Section 22.094 to have engaged in misconduct described by
  Section 22.093(c)(1)(A) or (B).
         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, 2023.
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