H.B. No. 2971
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of documents evaluating the
  performance of public school teachers and administrators.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.355, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 21.355.  CONFIDENTIALITY. (a)  A document evaluating
  the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential.
         (b)  Subsection (a) applies to a teacher or administrator
  employed by an open-enrollment charter school regardless of whether
  the teacher or administrator is certified under Subchapter B.
         (c)  At the request of a school district or open-enrollment
  charter school at which a teacher or administrator has applied for
  employment, an open-enrollment charter school may give the
  requesting district or school a document evaluating the performance
  of a teacher or administrator employed by the school.
         SECTION 2.  Section 21.355, Education Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies to each document described by that section,
  regardless of whether the document was created before, on, or after
  the effective date of this Act.
         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, 2011.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the House on April
  14, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 2971 on May 23, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2971 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 21, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor