Bill Text: TX HB5079 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for issuance of a supplemental bilingual education teaching certificate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB5079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5079-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 5079 | |
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| relating to the requirements for issuance of a supplemental | ||
| bilingual education teaching certificate. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.04892 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.04892. REQUIREMENTS FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION | ||
| SUPPLEMENTAL CERTIFICATION. (a) The board shall propose rules to | ||
| ensure that in issuing the teaching certificates appropriate for | ||
| bilingual education instruction in accordance with Section | ||
| 29.061(a), the board issues bifurcated supplemental certificates | ||
| in bilingual education instruction that, combined with a teacher's | ||
| primary certificate, certify the teacher to provide bilingual | ||
| education instruction to students in sixth grade and below or | ||
| students in 7th through 12th grade, as applicable. The bifurcated | ||
| supplemental certificates must be tailored to providing bilingual | ||
| education instruction in the applicable grades to which the | ||
| teacher's primary certificate applies. | ||
| (b) The rules proposed by the board shall allow a person | ||
| seeking certification described by Subsection (a) who fails to | ||
| perform satisfactorily on the required Bilingual Target Language | ||
| Proficiency Test to: | ||
| (1) retake only the sections of the test that include | ||
| the domains on which the person failed to perform satisfactorily; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) during a retake of the test described by | ||
| Subdivision (1), demonstrate the person's language proficiency | ||
| through the completion of fewer components, including eliminating a | ||
| component that requires the preparation of a lesson plan for a | ||
| person who fails to perform satisfactorily on a domain requiring | ||
| completion of that component. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the State Board for Educator Certification shall | ||
| propose rules prescribing the requirements for a supplemental | ||
| educator certification in bilingual education instruction as | ||
| provided by Section 21.04892, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
