Bill Text: TX HB874 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to employment of persons with advanced degrees as public school teachers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-16 - No action taken in subcommittee [HB874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB874-Introduced.html
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By: Sanford | H.B. No. 874 |
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relating to employment of persons with advanced degrees as public | ||
school teachers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.003, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a [ |
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not be employed as a teacher, teacher intern or teacher trainee, | ||
librarian, educational aide, administrator, educational | ||
diagnostician, or school counselor by a school district unless the | ||
person holds an appropriate certificate or permit issued as | ||
provided by Subchapter B. | ||
(a-1) Subject to the approval of the principal at the campus | ||
to which the person is assigned, a person with at least a master's | ||
degree in a subject may be employed as a teacher by a school | ||
district to teach that subject to students in grade levels 7 through | ||
12 regardless of whether the person holds an appropriate | ||
certificate or permit issued as provided by Subchapter B. For | ||
purposes of this subsection, a person's degree must be issued by an | ||
institution accredited by a regional accrediting agency or group | ||
that is recognized by a nationally recognized accreditation board | ||
or be an equivalent degree issued by an institution located in a | ||
foreign country. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.057(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) For purposes of this section, "inappropriately | ||
certified or uncertified teacher": | ||
(1) includes: | ||
(A) an individual serving on an emergency | ||
certificate issued under Section 21.041(b)(2); or | ||
(B) an individual who does not hold any | ||
certificate or permit issued under this chapter and is not employed | ||
as specified by Subdivision (2)(E) or (G); and | ||
(2) does not include an individual: | ||
(A) who is a certified teacher assigned to teach | ||
a class or classes outside his or her area of certification, as | ||
determined by rules proposed by the board in specifying the | ||
certificate required for each assignment; | ||
(B) serving on a certificate issued due to a | ||
hearing impairment under Section 21.048; | ||
(C) serving on a certificate issued pursuant to | ||
enrollment in an approved alternative certification program under | ||
Section 21.049; | ||
(D) certified by another state or country and | ||
serving on a certificate issued under Section 21.052; | ||
(E) serving on a school district teaching permit | ||
issued under Section 21.055; [ |
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(F) employed under a waiver granted by the | ||
commissioner pursuant to Section 7.056; or | ||
(G) employed in accordance with Section | ||
21.003(a-1). | ||
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, 2015. |