H.B. No. 1334
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the effect of a delay by the State Board for Educator
  Certification in renewing an educator's certification.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.0031, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
         (f)  For purposes of this section, a certificate or permit is
  not considered to have expired if:
               (1)  the employee has completed the requirements for
  renewal of the certificate or permit;
               (2)  the employee submitted the request for renewal
  prior to the expiration date; and
               (3)  the date the certificate or permit would have
  expired is before the date the State Board for Educator
  Certification takes action to approve the renewal of the
  certificate or permit.
         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, 2011.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1334 was passed by the House on April
  7, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 2, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 1334 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1334 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 23, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
  2.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor