Bill Text: TX SB1003 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of school district teaching permits to persons who teach career and technical education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-27 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [SB1003 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1003-Comm_Sub.html
84R30478 SRS-D | ||
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1003 | |
(Schaefer) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1003: No. |
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relating to the issuance of school district teaching permits to | ||
persons who teach career and technical education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.055, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) To be eligible for a school district teaching permit | ||
under this section, a person must hold a baccalaureate degree. | ||
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(d-1) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) do not apply to a person | ||
who will teach only noncore academic career and technical education | ||
courses. A school district board of trustees may issue a school | ||
district teaching permit to a person who will teach courses only in | ||
career and technical education based on qualifications certified by | ||
the superintendent of the school district. Qualifications must | ||
include demonstrated subject matter expertise such as professional | ||
work experience, formal training and education, holding an active | ||
professional relevant industry license, certification, or | ||
registration, or any combination of work experience, training and | ||
education, or industry license, certification, or registration, in | ||
the subject matter to be taught. The superintendent of the school | ||
district shall certify to the board of trustees that a new employee | ||
has undergone a criminal background check and is capable of proper | ||
classroom management. A school district shall require a new | ||
employee to obtain at least 20 hours of classroom management | ||
training and to comply with continuing education requirements as | ||
determined by the board of trustees. A person may teach a career | ||
and technical education course immediately upon issuance of a | ||
permit under this subsection. Promptly after employing a person | ||
who qualifies under this subsection, the board of trustees shall | ||
send to the commissioner a written statement identifying the | ||
person, the course the person will teach, and the person's | ||
qualifications to teach the course. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
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. |