Bill Text: TX HB2014 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of military personnel to obtain certification to teach career and technology education classes in public schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2014 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2014-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2014 | ||
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| relating to the authority of military personnel to obtain | ||
| certification to teach career and technology education classes in | ||
| public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.0487 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.0487. TRADES AND INDUSTRIES EDUCATION | ||
| CERTIFICATION FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL. (a) To the extent that rules | ||
| adopted under this subchapter require a person seeking trades and | ||
| industries education certification to hold a license or other | ||
| professional credential for a specific trade, a person who is a | ||
| current or former member of the United States armed services is | ||
| considered to have satisfied that requirement if the person has | ||
| experience in that trade obtained through military service. | ||
| (b) The board may not propose rules requiring a current or | ||
| former member of the United States armed services who seeks career | ||
| and technology education certification for a specific trade to hold | ||
| a credential related to that trade or possess experience related to | ||
| that trade other than the experience in that trade obtained through | ||
| military service. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2014 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2014 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
