Bill Text: TX HB391 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to termination of a public school teacher's term contract and discharge of the teacher at any time on the basis of a school district's financial exigency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB391 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB391-Introduced.html
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By: Aycock | H.B. No. 391 |
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relating to termination of a public school teacher's term contract | ||
and discharge of the teacher at any time on the basis of a school | ||
district's financial exigency. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.211, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) To terminate a term contract and discharge a teacher | ||
for a financial exigency under Subsection (a)(2), the board of | ||
trustees of a school district must adopt a resolution declaring the | ||
financial exigency and provide written notice of the declaration to | ||
the commissioner. The declaration expires at the end of the fiscal | ||
year during which the declaration is made unless the board adopts a | ||
resolution before the end of the fiscal year declaring continuation | ||
of the financial exigency for the following fiscal year and | ||
provides written notice of that declaration to the commissioner. | ||
The board is not limited in the number of times the board may adopt a | ||
resolution declaring continuation of the financial exigency. Each | ||
time the board adopts a resolution under this subsection, the board | ||
must notify the commissioner. The commissioner by rule shall | ||
prescribe the time and manner in which notice must be given to the | ||
commissioner under this subsection. | ||
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, 2011. |