Bill Text: TX HB647 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to employment of persons by open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB647 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB647-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 647 |
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relating to employment of persons by open-enrollment charter | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12.120, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), subject to Section | ||
12.1059, an open-enrollment charter school may employ a person: | ||
(1) as a teacher or educational aide if: | ||
(A) a school district could employ the person as | ||
a teacher or educational aide; or | ||
(B) a school district could employ the person as | ||
a teacher or educational aide if the person held the appropriate | ||
certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and the person | ||
has never held a certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21; | ||
or | ||
(2) in a position other than a position described by | ||
Subdivision (1) if a school district could employ the person in that | ||
position. | ||
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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 647 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 647 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |