Bill Text: TX SB345 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to staff development training for certain public school administrators regarding student discipline management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-02 - Referred to Education [SB345 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB345-Introduced.html
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| By: Gallegos | S.B. No. 345 | |
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| relating to staff development training for certain public school | ||
| administrators regarding student discipline management. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.0181 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0181. STAFF DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FOR | ||
| ADMINISTRATORS REGARDING DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT. (a) Each | ||
| principal or other appropriate administrator who oversees student | ||
| discipline shall, at least once every third school year, attend | ||
| staff development training regarding discipline management under | ||
| this subchapter, including training that provides information | ||
| relating to the distinction between a discipline management | ||
| technique used at the principal's discretion under Section | ||
| 37.002(a) and the discretionary authority of a teacher to remove a | ||
| disruptive student under Section 37.002(b). | ||
| (b) Staff development training under this section may be | ||
| provided: | ||
| (1) in coordination with regional education service | ||
| centers through the use of distance learning methods, such as | ||
| telecommunications networks; or | ||
| (2) through the use of available agency resources. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
