By: González of Dallas H.B. No. 4483
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required minutes of service during each school day
for a classroom teacher in public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.401, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) A contract between a school district and a classroom
teacher may not require the teacher to work more than 510 minutes
during each day of service.
SECTION 2. Section 21.401(e), Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a contract executed on or after the
effective date of this Act. A contract executed before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
day the contract was executed, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
school year.
SECTION 4. 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, 2021.