By: Shelton, Reynolds (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 2380
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 2011;
May 16, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 20, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to employment by school districts of certain persons under
probationary contracts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.102, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) A person who voluntarily accepts an assignment in a
new professional capacity that requires a different class of
certificate under Subchapter B than the class of certificate held
by the person in the professional capacity in which the person was
previously employed may be employed under a probationary contract.
This subsection does not apply to a person who is returned by a
school district to a professional capacity in which the person was
employed by the district before the district employed the person in
the new professional capacity as described by this subsection. A
person described by this subsection who is returned to a previous
professional capacity is entitled to be employed in the original
professional capacity under the same contractual status as the
status held by the person during the previous employment by the
district in that capacity.
SECTION 2. 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.
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