Bill Text: TX SB256 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring school districts to employ certain educators who retired or resigned because of the coronavirus disease pandemic.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB256-Introduced.html
| 87R1198 MEW-D | ||
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 256 | |
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| relating to requiring school districts to employ certain educators | ||
| who retired or resigned because of the coronavirus disease | ||
| pandemic. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.010 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.010. EDUCATOR RESIGNATION OR RETIREMENT AFTER | ||
| 2019-2020 SCHOOL YEAR OR DURING 2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR. (a) In this | ||
| section, "employment action" means an action that affects an | ||
| employee's compensation, promotion, demotion, transfer, work | ||
| assignment, or performance evaluation. | ||
| (b) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, an educator | ||
| employed by a school district for the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school | ||
| year who resigned or retired from the educator's position after the | ||
| 2019-2020 school year or during the 2020-2021 school year solely | ||
| because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is entitled | ||
| to: | ||
| (1) reinstatement to the educator's former position or | ||
| an equivalent position; and | ||
| (2) reinstatement of any fringe benefits and seniority | ||
| rights that the educator was entitled to before the educator's | ||
| resignation or retirement. | ||
| (c) If an educator returns to employment as provided by | ||
| Subsection (b), a school district may not take any adverse | ||
| employment action against the educator based on the educator's | ||
| decision to resign or retire after the 2019-2020 school year or | ||
| during the 2020-2021 school year. | ||
| (d) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
