By: Talarico H.B. No. 5384
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a classroom teacher's right to appeal to the
commissioner of education regarding the teacher's designation
under a local optional teacher designation system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.3521, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows:
(f-1) A classroom teacher may appeal to the commissioner if,
based on the teacher's performance, the teacher believes that but
for the school district's, open-enrollment charter school's, or
agency's error the teacher would have earned a specific designation
and the teacher:
(1) fails to earn any designation; or
(2) is issued a designation other than that
designation.
SECTION 2. 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, 2025.