Bill Text: TX HB810 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to employment of persons with professional qualifications as public school teachers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-26 - Left pending in subcommittee [HB810 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB810-Introduced.html
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| By: White of Tyler | H.B. No. 810 | |
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| relating to employment of persons with professional qualifications | ||
| as public school teachers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.003, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-2) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-2), a [ |
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| not be employed as a teacher, teacher intern or teacher trainee, | ||
| librarian, educational aide, administrator, educational | ||
| diagnostician, or school counselor by a school district unless the | ||
| person holds an appropriate certificate or permit issued as | ||
| provided by Subchapter B. | ||
| (a-2) Subject to the approval of the board of trustees, a | ||
| person with professional qualifications may be employed as a | ||
| teacher by a school district to teach introductory courses related | ||
| to the person's profession regardless of whether the person holds | ||
| an appropriate certificate or permit issued as provided by | ||
| Subchapter B. For purposes of this subsection, "person with | ||
| professional qualifications" means a person who engages in a | ||
| profession that requires the person to hold a license issued by the | ||
| appropriate state agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.057(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (d) For purposes of this section, "inappropriately | ||
| certified or uncertified teacher": | ||
| (1) includes: | ||
| (A) an individual serving on an emergency | ||
| certificate issued under Section 21.041(b)(2); or | ||
| (B) an individual who does not hold any | ||
| certificate or permit issued under this chapter and is not employed | ||
| as specified by Subdivision (2)(E) or (G); and | ||
| (2) does not include an individual: | ||
| (A) who is a certified teacher assigned to teach | ||
| a class or classes outside his or her area of certification, as | ||
| determined by rules proposed by the board in specifying the | ||
| certificate required for each assignment; | ||
| (B) serving on a certificate issued due to a | ||
| hearing impairment under Section 21.048; | ||
| (C) serving on a certificate issued pursuant to | ||
| enrollment in an approved alternative certification program under | ||
| Section 21.049; | ||
| (D) certified by another state or country and | ||
| serving on a certificate issued under Section 21.052; | ||
| (E) serving on a school district teaching permit | ||
| issued under Section 21.055; [ |
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| (F) employed under a waiver granted by the | ||
| commissioner pursuant to Section 7.056; or | ||
| (G) employed in accordance with Section | ||
| 21.003(a-2). | ||
| 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 September 1, 2015. | ||
