Bill Text: TX SB1775 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the acquisition of certain professional services by a school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Referred to Education [SB1775 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1775-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1775 |
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relating to the acquisition of certain professional services by a | ||
school district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.109, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.109. ACQUISITION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. (a) In | ||
addition to other interventions and sanctions authorized under this | ||
subchapter, the commissioner may order a school district or campus | ||
to acquire professional services at the expense of the district or | ||
campus to address the applicable financial, assessment, data | ||
quality, program, performance, or governance deficiency. The | ||
commissioner's order may require the district or campus to: | ||
(1) select or be assigned an external auditor, data | ||
quality expert, professional authorized to monitor district | ||
assessment instrument administration, or curriculum or program | ||
expert; or | ||
(2) provide for or participate in the appropriate | ||
training of district staff or board of trustees members in the case | ||
of a district, or campus staff, in the case of a campus. | ||
(b) An educator approved as a professional service provider | ||
to provide services to a school district or campus ordered to | ||
acquire the service in accordance with this section may not charge | ||
the district for the service more than: | ||
(1) $75 per hour; or | ||
(2) a fixed amount equivalent to that hourly rate. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
39.109, Education Code, applies to the payment for services | ||
provided or to payment owed pursuant to a contract for services | ||
entered on or after the effective date of this Act. The payment for | ||
services provided or payment owed pursuant to a contract for | ||
services entered before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date the contract was entered, if any, or | ||
on the date the service was provided if no contract was entered, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
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. |