Bill Text: TX HB906 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a temporary teaching certificate for certain military service members and first responders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB906 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB906-Introduced.html
  89R3499 JDK-D
 
  By: Shaheen H.B. No. 906
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a temporary teaching certificate for certain military
  service members and first responders.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 21.0444(b) and (c), Education Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  This section applies to a person seeking teaching
  certification [to teach career and technology education] who:
               (1)  has served in the armed forces of the United States
  and was honorably discharged, retired, or released from active
  duty; or
               (2)  has served as a first responder and, while in good
  standing and not because of pending or final disciplinary actions
  or a documented performance problem, retired, resigned, or
  separated from employment as a first responder.
         (c)  The board shall propose rules under this subchapter
  providing for the issuance of a temporary teaching certificate [to
  teach career and technology education] to a person described by
  Subsection (b) who meets all other eligibility requirements for
  standard teaching certification [to teach career and technology
  education], except that the person may substitute for a requirement
  that the person hold:
               (1)  an associate degree from an accredited institution
  of higher education, 48 months of active duty military service or
  service as a first responder; or
               (2)  a bachelor's degree:
                     (A)  the military service or service as a first
  responder described by Subdivision (1); and
                     (B)  60 semester credit hours completed at a
  public or private institution of higher education with a minimum
  grade point average of at least 2.50 on a four-point scale.
         SECTION 2.  Section 21.458(a-2), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a-2)  A school district shall assign a mentor teacher to a
  classroom teacher who has been issued a temporary teaching
  certificate [to teach career and technology education] under
  Section 21.0444 for at least two school years.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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