84R1709 SRS-D
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1003
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to eliminating the commissioner of education's authority
to approve a school district's issuance of a teaching permit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.055(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) A person issued a school district teaching permit
[authorized to teach] under this section may not teach in another
school district unless that district issues a school district
teaching permit [complies with this section]. A school district
teaching permit remains valid unless the district issuing the
permit revokes it for cause.
SECTION 2. Sections 21.055(c) and (d), Education Code, are
repealed.
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, 2015.