By: Smith of Tarrant (Senate Sponsor - Davis) H.B. No. 2971
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011;
April 26, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 19, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 document evaluating the
performance of a teacher or administrator, including a teacher or
administrator employed by an open-enrollment charter school, is
confidential.
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.
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