Bill Text: TX SB1590 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to rules by the State Board for Educator Certification regarding virtual observation options for field-based experiences and internships required for educator certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB1590 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1590-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1590 | ||
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| relating to rules by the State Board for Educator Certification | ||
| regarding virtual observation options for field-based experiences | ||
| and internships required for educator certification. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 21.051(f), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (f) The board shall propose rules providing flexible | ||
| options for persons for any field-based experience or internship | ||
| required for certification, including options for candidate | ||
| observations that provide for at least: | ||
| (1) two observations to occur in person and two | ||
| additional observations to occur in virtual settings that are | ||
| equivalent in rigor to in-person options for observation; or | ||
| (2) three observations to occur in person. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1590 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 3, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that the | ||
| Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2021, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1590 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 135, | ||
| Nays 10, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
