88R15239 TSS-D
 
  By: Guerra H.B. No. 5079
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirements for issuance of a supplemental
  bilingual education teaching certificate.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 21.04892 to read as follows:
         Sec. 21.04892.  REQUIREMENTS FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION
  SUPPLEMENTAL CERTIFICATION. (a)  The board shall propose rules to
  ensure that in issuing the teaching certificates appropriate for
  bilingual education instruction in accordance with Section
  29.061(a), the board issues bifurcated supplemental certificates
  in bilingual education instruction that, combined with a teacher's
  primary certificate, certify the teacher to provide bilingual
  education instruction to students in sixth grade and below or
  students in 7th through 12th grade, as applicable. The bifurcated
  supplemental certificates must be tailored to providing bilingual
  education instruction in the applicable grades to which the
  teacher's primary certificate applies.
         (b)  The rules proposed by the board shall allow a person
  seeking certification described by Subsection (a) who fails to
  perform satisfactorily on the required Bilingual Target Language
  Proficiency Test to:
               (1)  retake only the sections of the test that include
  the domains on which the person failed to perform satisfactorily;
  and
               (2)  during a retake of the test described by
  Subdivision (1), demonstrate the person's language proficiency
  through the completion of fewer components, including eliminating a
  component that requires the preparation of a lesson plan for a
  person who fails to perform satisfactorily on a domain requiring
  completion of that component.
         SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the State Board for Educator Certification shall
  propose rules prescribing the requirements for a supplemental
  educator certification in bilingual education instruction as
  provided by Section 21.04892, Education Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.