| 1 | | - | By: Sheets, et al. H.B. No. 2014 |
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| 2 | | - | (Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Collin) |
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| 3 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015; |
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| 4 | | - | May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran |
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| 5 | | - | Affairs and Military Installations; May 21, 2015, reported |
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| 6 | | - | favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0, 1 present not |
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| 7 | | - | voting; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 2014 |
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| 12 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 13 | 5 | | relating to the authority of military personnel to obtain |
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| 14 | 6 | | certification to teach career and technology education classes in |
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| 15 | 7 | | public schools. |
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| 16 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 17 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is |
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| 18 | 10 | | amended by adding Section 21.0487 to read as follows: |
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| 19 | 11 | | Sec. 21.0487. TRADES AND INDUSTRIES EDUCATION |
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| 20 | 12 | | CERTIFICATION FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL. (a) To the extent that rules |
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| 21 | 13 | | adopted under this subchapter require a person seeking trades and |
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| 22 | 14 | | industries education certification to hold a license or other |
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| 23 | 15 | | professional credential for a specific trade, a person who is a |
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| 24 | 16 | | current or former member of the United States armed services is |
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| 25 | 17 | | considered to have satisfied that requirement if the person has |
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| 26 | 18 | | experience in that trade obtained through military service. |
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| 27 | 19 | | (b) The board may not propose rules requiring a current or |
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| 28 | 20 | | former member of the United States armed services who seeks career |
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| 29 | 21 | | and technology education certification for a specific trade to hold |
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| 30 | 22 | | a credential related to that trade or possess experience related to |
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| 31 | 23 | | that trade other than the experience in that trade obtained through |
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| 32 | 24 | | military service. |
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| 33 | 25 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 34 | 26 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 35 | 27 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 36 | 28 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 37 | 29 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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| 38 | | - | * * * * * |
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| 30 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 31 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 32 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2014 was passed by the House on May 8, |
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| 33 | + | 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not |
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| 34 | + | voting. |
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| 35 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 36 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 37 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 2014 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 38 | + | 24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. |
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| 39 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 40 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 41 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 42 | + | Date |
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| 43 | + | _____________________ |
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| 44 | + | Governor |
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