Bill Text: TX SB826 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the sequencing of required English language arts courses and mathematics courses in schools and conforming changes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [SB826 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB826-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 826 |
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relating to the sequencing of required English language arts | ||
courses and mathematics courses in schools and conforming changes. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, as amended | ||
by Chapters 211 (H.B. 5) and 214 (H.B. 2201), Acts of the 83rd | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b-2) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State | ||
Board of Education shall: | ||
(1) provide for a student to comply with the | ||
curriculum requirements for an advanced English course under | ||
Subsection (b-1)(1) [ |
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under Subsection (b-1)(2) [ |
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Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing a course in the | ||
appropriate content area that has been approved as an advanced | ||
course by board rule or that is offered as an advanced course for | ||
credit without board approval as provided by Section 28.002(g-1); | ||
and | ||
(2) allow a student to comply with the curriculum | ||
requirements for the third and fourth mathematics credits under | ||
Subsection (b-1)(2) or the third and fourth science credits under | ||
Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing an advanced career | ||
and technical course designated by the State Board of Education as | ||
containing substantively similar and rigorous academic content. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the Senate on | ||
April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2017, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 17, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140, | ||
Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |