Bill Text: TX SB1256 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment by regional education service centers of committees to evaluate teacher shortages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Education [SB1256 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1256-Introduced.html

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88R10440 ANG-D
By: Hughes S.B. No. 1256

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment by regional education service centers
of committees to evaluate teacher shortages.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 8, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 8.063 to read as follows:
Sec. 8.063. REGIONAL TEACHER SHORTAGES EVALUATION
COMMITTEE. (a) The executive director of each regional education
service center shall establish a committee to:
(1) evaluate teacher shortages in the committee's
region; and
(2) determine the need for the center, independently
or in collaboration with public schools in the committee's region,
to offer an educator preparation program to facilitate the
recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers.
(b) If an educator preparation program has already been
established in a region served by a regional education service
center, the committee established for that region shall evaluate
the effectiveness of the educator preparation program and make
recommendations for improving the program.
(c) The committee is composed of nine members appointed by
the executive director of each regional education service center as
follows:
(1) three members who are superintendents employed by
a school district served by the center;
(2) three members who are teachers employed by a
public school served by the center; and
(3) three members who are parents of students enrolled
in a public school served by the center.
(d) Not later than November 1, 2024, each committee
established under Subsection (a) shall submit to the governor, the
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,
the commissioner, the Senate Education Committee, and the House
Public Education Committee a report that includes the committee's
findings under this section.
(e) This section expires November 1, 2025.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, each executive director of a regional education
service center shall appoint the members of the center's regional
teacher shortage evaluation committee, as required by Section
8.063, Education Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.