Texas Education Code - EDUC § 22A.157 . Employees and Applicants Convicted of or Placed on Deferred Adjudication Community Supervision for Certain Offenses

(a) An educational entity shall discharge or refuse to hire an employee or applicant for employment if the entity obtains information through a criminal history record information review that the employee or applicant has been:

(b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the employee or applicant for employment committed an offense under Title 5, Penal Code and:

(c) An educational entity may not allow a person who is an employee of or applicant for employment by a qualified school contractor or an entity that contracts with the entity to serve for the entity if the entity obtains information described by Subsection (a) through a criminal history record information review concerning the employee or applicant.  An educational entity must ensure that an entity that the educational entity contracts with for services has obtained all criminal history record information as required by Section 22.0834.

(d) An educational entity or private school may discharge an employee if the entity or school obtains information of the employee's conviction of a felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude that the employee did not disclose to the board or the entity or school.  An employee discharged under this section is considered to have been discharged for misconduct for purposes of Section 207.044, Labor Code.

(e) The board may impose a sanction on an educator who does not discharge an employee or refuse to hire an applicant for employment if the educator knows or should have known, through a criminal history record information review, that the employee or applicant has been:

(f) Each school year, the superintendent of a school district or chief operating officer of an open-enrollment charter school shall certify to the commissioner that the district or school has complied with this section.