86R17322 CAE-D
	By: King of Hemphill	H.B. No. 663

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a continuing review and revision of the essential
	knowledge and skills of the public school foundation curriculum and
	proclamations for the production of instructional materials.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 28.0025 to read as follows:
	Sec. 28.0025.  REVIEW AND REVISION OF ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
	AND SKILLS. (a) The State Board of Education shall:
	(1)  conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
	skills for the foundation curriculum adopted under Section
	28.002(a)(1); and
	(2)  as necessary, revise the essential knowledge and
	skills for that curriculum to narrow the number and scope of student
	expectations for each subject and grade level in accordance with
	this section.
	(b)  The scope of the essential knowledge and skills for each
	subject and grade level of the foundation curriculum must:
	(1)  be more narrow than the scope of the essential
	knowledge and skills adopted as of January 1, 2019; and
	(2)  require less time for a demonstration of mastery
	than required for the essential knowledge and skills adopted as of
	January 1, 2019.
	(c)  In complying with this section, the State Board of
	Education shall:
	(1)  consider for each subject and grade level, the
	time:
	(A)  a teacher would require to provide
	comprehensive instruction on a particular student expectation; and
	(B)  a typical student would require to master a
	particular student expectation;
	(2)  determine whether, in light of the consideration
	required by Subdivision (1), each essential knowledge and skill of
	a subject can be comprehensively taught within the instruction time
	provided by Section 25.081, not including the amount of time
	required for testing;
	(3)  determine whether the college and career readiness
	standards have been appropriately integrated in the essential
	knowledge and skills for each subject and grade level; and
	(4)  consider whether an assessment instrument
	administered under Section 39.023 adequately assesses a particular
	student expectation.
	(c-1)  The State Board of Education must ensure that any
	revision of the essential knowledge and skills for the foundation
	curriculum performed before September 1, 2022, does not result in a
	need for the adoption of new instructional materials.  This section
	expires September 1, 2023.
	(d)  The State Board of Education shall adopt a schedule for
	continuing the review and revision required by this section of the
	essential knowledge and skills for each subject and grade level of
	the foundation curriculum.
	SECTION 2.  Section 31.002, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subdivision (1-b) to read as follows:
	(1-b)  "Proclamation" means a request for production of
	instructional materials issued by the State Board of Education.
	SECTION 3.  Section 31.022, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), and (b-3) and amending Subsection
	(f) to read as follows:
	(b-1)  For any state fiscal biennium, the board may only
	issue proclamations for instructional materials in which the total
	projected cost of instructional materials under the proclamations
	does not exceed 75 percent of the total amount used to fund the
	instructional materials and technology allotment under Section
	31.0211 for that biennium.
	(b-2)  Following the adoption of revised essential knowledge
	and skills for any subject, the board shall determine whether
	issuance of a proclamation is necessary based on the significance
	of the changes to the essential knowledge and skills. If the board
	determines a proclamation is necessary, the board shall issue:
	(1)  a full call for instructional materials aligned to
	all of the essential knowledge and skills for the subject and grade
	level;
	(2)  a supplemental call for instructional materials
	aligned to new or expanded essential knowledge and skills for the
	subject and grade level;
	(3)  a call for new information demonstrating alignment
	of current instructional materials to the revised essential
	knowledge and skills; or
	(4)  any combination of the calls described by
	Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3).
	(b-3)  In determining the disbursement of money to the
	available school fund and the amount of that disbursement that will
	be used, in accordance with Section 43.001(d), to fund the
	instructional materials and technology allotment under Section
	31.0211, the board must consider the cost of all instructional
	materials and technology requirements for that state fiscal
	biennium.
	(f)  The board shall amend any proclamation [request for
	production] issued for the purchase of instructional materials to
	conform to the instructional materials funding levels provided by
	the General Appropriations Act for the year of implementation and
	to comply with Subsection (b-1).
	SECTION 4.  Sections 31.101(d) and (e), Education Code, are
	repealed.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.