Bill Text: TX SB2215 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a dual language immersion bilingual education teaching certificate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Education [SB2215 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2215-Introduced.html
| 88R9480 TSS-D | ||
| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 2215 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a dual language immersion | ||
| 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. DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION BILINGUAL EDUCATION | ||
| CERTIFICATION. (a) The board shall establish a dual language | ||
| immersion bilingual education teaching certificate to provide | ||
| instruction to high school students in bilingual education programs | ||
| using a dual language immersion/one-way or two-way program model. | ||
| (b) To be eligible for a certificate established under this | ||
| section, a person must: | ||
| (1) satisfactorily complete the coursework for that | ||
| certificate in an educator preparation program; | ||
| (2) perform satisfactorily on the Bilingual Target | ||
| Language Proficiency Test; and | ||
| (3) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the | ||
| board designed to address specific linguistic and content | ||
| requirements for effective instruction in a dual language immersion | ||
| program. | ||
| (c) The board shall propose rules to allow a person seeking | ||
| certification under this section who fails to perform | ||
| satisfactorily on the 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 requirements for an educator | ||
| certification in dual language immersion bilingual education | ||
| teaching as provided by Section 21.04892, Education Code, as added | ||
| by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
