Bill Text: TX SB1590 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1590 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Bettencourt	S.B. No. 1590
	(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 24, 2021, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 23, 2021,
	reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 2;
	April 23, 2021, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	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 to occur in virtual settings that are equivalent in
	rigor to in-person options for observation.
	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.

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