Bill Text: TX HB1815 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1815 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition of school district retaliation against a teacher for permissible teaching about the Bible.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Referred to Public Education [HB1815 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1815-Introduced.html

	84R8195 JSL-D

	By: Burrows	H.B. No. 1815



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a prohibition of school district retaliation against a
	teacher for permissible teaching about the Bible.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 21.012 to read as follows:
	Sec. 21.012. RETALIATION BASED ON BIBLE INSTRUCTION
	PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, "employment action" means an
	action that affects an employee's compensation, promotion,
	demotion, transfer, work assignment, or performance evaluation.
	(b) A school district may not suspend or terminate the
	employment of a teacher or take other adverse employment action
	against the teacher based on the teacher's instruction to students
	about the Bible if the instruction is provided in accordance with
	the United States Constitution, federal law, the Texas
	Constitution, and state law.
	(c) A teacher whose employment is suspended or terminated or
	who is subjected to an adverse employment action in violation of
	this section is entitled to:
	(1) reinstatement to the teacher's former position or
	an equivalent position;
	(2) compensation for lost wages during the period of
	suspension, termination, or other adverse employment action;
	(3) reinstatement of fringe benefits and seniority
	rights lost because of the suspension, termination, or other
	adverse employment action; and
	(4) permanent removal of any retaliatory performance
	review from any personnel file maintained by the district regarding
	the teacher.
	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 September 1, 2015.