| 1 | 1 | | By: Uresti S.B. No. 1317 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2017; March 14, 2017, read |
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| 3 | 3 | | first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 24, 2017, |
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| 4 | 4 | | reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the |
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| 5 | 5 | | following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 3; April 24, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 7 | 7 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1317 By: Uresti |
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| 10 | 10 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 11 | 11 | | AN ACT |
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| 12 | 12 | | relating to the earliest day a public school teacher may be required |
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| 13 | 13 | | to report for service. |
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| 14 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is |
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| 16 | 16 | | amended by adding Section 21.010 to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | Sec. 21.010. FIRST DAY OF TEACHER SERVICE. (a) Except as |
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| 18 | 18 | | provided by Subsection (b), a school district may not require a |
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| 19 | 19 | | teacher to report for service at the beginning of a school year |
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| 20 | 20 | | earlier than the seventh business day before the first day that |
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| 21 | 21 | | instruction will be provided to students. |
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| 22 | 22 | | (b) A school district may require a teacher who is in the |
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| 23 | 23 | | teacher's first year of employment with the district to report for |
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| 24 | 24 | | service at the beginning of a school year up to 10 business days |
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| 25 | 25 | | before the first day that instruction will be provided to students. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. Section 21.010, Education Code, as added by this |
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| 27 | 27 | | Act, applies beginning with the 2018-2019 school year. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 29 | 29 | | * * * * * |
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