By: Allen (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 4435
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2009;
May 6, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 23, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
May 23, 2009, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 4435 By: West
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirement for participation by certain principals
in the school leadership pilot program for principals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11.203(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) A principal who was employed as a principal at a campus
that was [of a campus] rated academically unacceptable during the
preceding school year [, as well as any person employed to replace
that principal,] shall participate in the program and complete the
program requirements not later than a date determined by the
commissioner.
SECTION 2. Section 11.203(d), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a principal employed at a school that is
rated academically unacceptable during the 2008-2009 school year.
SECTION 3. It is the intent of the legislature that the
passage of H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular
Session, 2009, with any amendments to Section 11.203(d), Education
Code, and the amendments made by this Act shall be harmonized, if
possible, as provided by Section 311.025(b), Government Code, so
that effect may be given to each. If amendments made to Section
11.203(d), Education Code, by H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, and the amendments to Section
11.203(d), Education Code, made by this Act are irreconcilable, it
is the intent of the legislature that H.B. No. 3, Acts of the 81st
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, prevail, regardless of the
relative dates of enactment of this Act and H.B. No. 3, Acts of the
81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, but only to the extent
that any differences are irreconcilable.
SECTION 4. 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, 2009.
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