House Bill 11 (Dutton) Relating to the rights and certification of public school educators, including financial and other assistance provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators, methods of reading instruction in public schools, certain allotments providing for compensation for certain public school teachers under the Foundation School Program, and rules adopted by the State Board for Educator Certification. The bill was passed out of the House on 4/27 (145-3). Six floor amendments were adopted onto the bill, including allowing ISDs to remove caps on the mentoring program, codifying intent to provide Pre-K funding under the Early Education Allotment, and modifying exception timelines for bilingual education. The bill will now move to the Senate for further discussion.
See below for a HillCo report on House floor discussions and votes for HB 11 on second and third reading.
This report is intended to give you an overview and highlight the discussions on the various topics taken up. It is not a verbatim transcript of the discussions but is based upon what was audible or understandable to the observer.
HB 11 (Dutton / King, Ken / Harless / Buckley / Jones, Jolanda / et al.) Relating to the rights and certification of public school educators, including financial and other assistance provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators, methods of reading instruction in public schools, certain allotments providing for compensation for certain public school teachers under the Foundation School Program, and rules adopted by the State Board for Educator Certification.
- Dutton – Creating teacher residency program with incentives, eliminating surcharge for retired teachers; number of measures designed to improve teacher quality and ultimately improve outcomes
- FA 1 Dutton – Perfecting amendment to specify that funding was going to ed prep programs, fixes confusion that 10% would be double counted
- FA 1 adopted
- FA 2 Cody Harris – Removes veto authority and negotiated rulemaking section
- FA 2 adopted
- FA 3 TMF – Mentoring program amendment, ISDs can discretionarily exceed caps
- FA 3 adopted
- FA 4 VanDeaver – Early Education Allotment, codifying intent to provide Pre-K funding
- Dutton – Not for or against, but do want a record vote
- Tinderholt – 10% increase?
- Dutton – Not an increase, changes the way we base the whole thing
- FA 4 adopted (143-0, 2 PNV)
- FA 5 Lozano – 5 candidate observations & cert authority
- FA 5 adopted
- FA 6 M Gonzalez – Three year exception, can be transferred
- FA 6 adopted
- Dutton – Still have a number of students not receiving a quality education, part of issue is quality teachers in the classroom; gives teachers a better start
- Passed to engrossment (139-4) on 4/26
- Finally passed (145-3) on 4/27