H.B. No. 2971
AN ACT
relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the
performance of public school teachers and administrators.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.355, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 21.355. CONFIDENTIALITY. (a) A document evaluating
the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential.
(b) Subsection (a) applies to a teacher or administrator
employed by an open-enrollment charter school regardless of whether
the teacher or administrator is certified under Subchapter B.
(c) At the request of a school district or open-enrollment
charter school at which a teacher or administrator has applied for
employment, an open-enrollment charter school may give the
requesting district or school a document evaluating the performance
of a teacher or administrator employed by the school.
SECTION 2. Section 21.355, Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies to each document described by that section,
regardless of whether the document was created before, on, or after
the effective date of this Act.
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the House on April
14, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2971 on May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor