| 1 | 1 | | By: Patrick (Senate Sponsor - Davis) H.B. No. 647 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Education; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | 5 | | Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to employment of persons by open-enrollment charter |
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| 11 | 11 | | schools. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 12.120, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 14 | 14 | | adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), subject to Section |
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| 16 | 16 | | 12.1059, an open-enrollment charter school may employ a person: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (1) as a teacher or educational aide if: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (A) a school district could employ the person as |
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| 19 | 19 | | a teacher or educational aide; or |
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| 20 | 20 | | (B) a school district could employ the person as |
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| 21 | 21 | | a teacher or educational aide if the person held the appropriate |
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| 22 | 22 | | certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and the person |
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| 23 | 23 | | has never held a certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter 21; |
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| 24 | 24 | | or |
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| 25 | 25 | | (2) in a position other than a position described by |
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| 26 | 26 | | Subdivision (1) if a school district could employ the person in that |
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| 27 | 27 | | position. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 29 | 29 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 30 | 30 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 31 | 31 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 32 | 32 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 33 | 33 | | * * * * * |
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