82R24242 CAE-D
By: Garza, Callegari, Pena, Aliseda, Hughes, H.B. No. 1423
et al.
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1423:
By: Zedler C.S.H.B. No. 1423
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to restrictions on written information required to be
provided by public school teachers and a study by the commissioner
of education concerning implementation of the restrictions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 7.060, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The commissioner shall conduct a study of how a school
district can timely accomplish the results prescribed under Section
11.164(d) concerning reduction in the written information a teacher
is required to prepare. Not later than January 1, 2013, the
commissioner shall submit the results of the study to the governor,
the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
representatives, and the presiding officers of each legislative
standing committee with primary jurisdiction over public education
and make the results available to each school district in this
state. This subsection expires January 31, 2013.
SECTION 2. Section 11.164, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) In addition to the requirements otherwise prescribed by
this section, the board of trustees of each school district shall
adopt policies that result in a substantial reduction of the total
amount of written information that a teacher is required to
prepare, as determined in comparison to the total amount of written
information required to be prepared by a teacher during the
2011-2012 school year. The board of trustees shall base the amount
of the reduction required on the results of the study conducted
under Section 7.060(c). A school district shall implement the
policies required by this subsection beginning not later than the
2014-2015 school year. This subsection expires September 1, 2015.
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.