Bill Text: TX HB963 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB963 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB963-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB963 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB963-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bell of Montgomery, et al. | H.B. No. 963 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2019; | ||
May 3, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 15, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; | ||
May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 963 | By: Taylor |
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relating to a review by the State Board of Education of the | ||
essential knowledge and skills of the career and technology and | ||
technology applications curriculums. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Not later than March 1, 2020, the State Board of | ||
Education shall: | ||
(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and | ||
skills of the career and technology and technology applications | ||
curriculums; and | ||
(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas | ||
Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications | ||
courses for grades 9 through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126, Subchapter | ||
C, with the career and technical education courses in 19 T.A.C. | ||
Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while ensuring | ||
certifications are aligned with the rigor of each individual | ||
course. | ||
SECTION 2. The State Board of Education is required to | ||
implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature | ||
appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the State Board of Education may, but is not required to, | ||
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations | ||
available for that purpose. | ||
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, 2019. | ||
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