REQUEST FOR HEARING
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Coggin v. Longview Independent School District (2003)
Most recently applied in El Paso Independent School District v. Anna Luisa Kell (June 2015)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A teacher must file a written request for a hearing under this subchapter with the commissioner not later than the 15th day after the date the teacher receives written notice of the proposed action. The teacher must provide the district with a copy of the request and must provide the commissioner with a copy of the notice.
(b) The parties may agree in writing to extend by not more than 10 days the deadline for requesting a hearing.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.