88R12569 AMF-D
By: Lopez of Cameron H.B. No. 3792
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring a public school to certify compliance with
the requirements to discharge or refuse to employ certain
ineligible persons and to report certain educator misconduct.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.092, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) Each school year, the superintendent of a school
district or chief operating officer of an open-enrollment charter
school shall certify to the commissioner that the district or
school has complied with Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Section 22.093, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (k-1) to read as follows:
(k-1) Each school year, the superintendent of a school
district or chief operating officer of an open-enrollment charter
school shall certify to the commissioner that the district or
school has complied with the requirement to report misconduct under
this section.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
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, 2023.