Bill Text: TX HB3132 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to staff development requirements for public school teachers who provide reading instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to Education [HB3132 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3132-Introduced.html
86R13031 JES-D | ||
By: Allen | H.B. No. 3132 |
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relating to staff development requirements for public school | ||
teachers who provide reading instruction to students in | ||
kindergarten through grade three. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.451, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
(i) The staff development for a classroom teacher who | ||
provides reading instruction to students at the kindergarten or | ||
first, second, or third grade level must include training in: | ||
(1) effective and systematic instructional practices | ||
in reading, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, | ||
vocabulary, and comprehension; and | ||
(2) the use of empirically validated instructional | ||
methods that are appropriate for assisting struggling readers. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2019. |