HBA-MPM, NLM H.B. 618 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 618 By: Dukes Public Education 6/7/1999 Enrolled BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Prior to the 76th Legislative Session, a school district was not required to report the certification status of teachers in the district to a student's parent or guardian. H.B. 618 requires written notification to be given to the parent or guardian if an inappropriately certified or uncertified teacher is assigned to the same classroom for more than 30 consecutive days during the same school year and requires the school district to make a good-faith effort to provide the notice in a bilingual form to those parents and guardians whose primary language is not English. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, by adding Section 21.057, as follows: Sec. 21.057. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION. Requires a school district which assigns an inappropriately certified or uncertified teacher to the same classroom for more than 30 consecutive days during the same school year to provide written notice of this assignment to the parent or guardian of each student in the classroom. Requires the school's superintendent to provide this notice no later than the 30th instructional day after the assignment of the teacher. Requires the district to make a good-faith effort to ensure that the notice is provided in a bilingual form to any parent or guardian whose primary language is not English and to retain a copy of the notice, as well as to make information relating to teacher certification available to the public on request. Defines "inappropriately certified or uncertified teacher" for purposes of this section. SECTION 2. Makes this Act applicable beginning with the 1999-2000 school year. SECTION 3. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.