83R10135 PAM-D
By: West S.B. No. 1117
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to establishing teacher advisory councils to provide
public advice on issues that affect public education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 8, Education Code, is amended by adding
Subchapter Z to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 8.901. TEACHER ADVISORY COUNCILS. (a) Each regional
education service center shall establish a voluntary teacher
advisory council as provided by this section.
(b) A teacher who is selected as a teacher of the year from a
regional education service center region under a program in which
the agency participates is entitled to serve as a member of the
teacher advisory council.
(c) The teacher advisory council may be consulted by the
agency, members of the legislature, school districts, public school
teachers, and other parties as appropriate to provide advice on
issues that affect public education, including the development and
implementation of policies, procedures, and programs that affect
public education.
(d) Each regional education service center shall make
teleconferencing and other technological resources available to
the teacher advisory council to accomplish the purposes of this
section.
(e) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement and
administer this section.
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, 2013.