Bill Text: TX HB149 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 149 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a reduction in required days of service for educators in public schools under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB149 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB149-Introduced.html

	85S10073 MK-D

	By: Burkett	H.B. No. 149



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a reduction in required days of service for educators in
	public schools under certain circumstances.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 21.401, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
	follows:
	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), an [An] educator
	employed under a 10-month contract must provide a minimum of 187
	days of service.
	(c-1) If a school district anticipates providing less than
	180 days of instruction for students during a school year, as
	indicated by the district's academic calendar, the district may
	reduce the number of days of service required by this section
	proportionately. A reduction by the district does not reduce an
	educator's salary.
	SECTION 2. Section 21.401, Education Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to a contract executed on or after the
	effective date of this Act. A contract executed before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
	date the contract was executed, 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.