Bill Text: TX SB1003 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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
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
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1003 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2015; March 10, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 16, 2015, | ||
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 16, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1003 | By: Bettencourt |
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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 non-core academic career and technical | ||
education courses. A school board 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 through active professional | ||
licensure, certification, or registration by a nationally | ||
recognized professional accrediting agency and at least five years | ||
of full-time wage earning work experience requiring licensure | ||
within the past eight years. The superintendent of the school | ||
district shall certify to the school board 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 school board. A person may teach a career and | ||
technical education course immediately upon issuance of a permit | ||
under this subsection. The school board, promptly after employing | ||
a person who qualifies under this subsection, 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. | ||
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