Bill Text: TX HB157 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility for admission to an educator preparation program for certification in trade and industrial workforce training.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-08 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB157 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB157-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Gervin-Hawkins, Guillen | H.B. No. 157 | |
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| relating to eligibility for admission to an educator preparation | ||
| program for certification in trade and industrial workforce | ||
| training. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.0442(b), Education Code, as added by | ||
| H.B. 3349, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) A person is eligible for admission to an educator | ||
| preparation program created under this section only if the person: | ||
| (1) has been issued a high school diploma, a high | ||
| school equivalency certificate, or a postsecondary credential, | ||
| certificate, or degree; | ||
| (2) has seven years of full-time wage-earning | ||
| experience, including experience obtained while serving in the | ||
| United States armed services, within the preceding 10 years in an | ||
| approved occupation for which instruction is offered; | ||
| (3) holds with respect to that occupation a current | ||
| license, certificate, or registration, as applicable, issued by a | ||
| nationally recognized accrediting agency based on a recognized test | ||
| or measurement; and | ||
| (4) within the period described by Subdivision (2), | ||
| has not been the subject of a complaint filed with a licensing | ||
| entity or other agency that regulates the occupation of the person, | ||
| other than a complaint that was determined baseless or unfounded by | ||
| that entity or agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 December 1, 2017. | ||
