Bill Text: TX SB1317 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the earliest day a public school teacher may be required to report for service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1317 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1317-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Uresti | S.B. No. 1317 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2017; March 14, 2017, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 24, 2017, | ||
| reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 3; April 24, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1317 | By: Uresti | |
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| relating to the earliest day a public school teacher may be required | ||
| to report for service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.010 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.010. FIRST DAY OF TEACHER SERVICE. (a) Except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (b), a school district may not require a | ||
| teacher to report for service at the beginning of a school year | ||
| earlier than the seventh business day before the first day that | ||
| instruction will be provided to students. | ||
| (b) A school district may require a teacher who is in the | ||
| teacher's first year of employment with the district to report for | ||
| service at the beginning of a school year up to 10 business days | ||
| before the first day that instruction will be provided to students. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.010, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies beginning with the 2018-2019 school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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