Bill Text: TX HB3435 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to establishing and celebrating Texas Girls in STEM Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB3435 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3435-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3435 | ||
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| relating to establishing and celebrating Texas Girls in STEM Day. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.071. TEXAS GIRLS IN STEM DAY. (a) March 1 is | ||
| designated as Texas Girls in STEM Day to celebrate and encourage the | ||
| participation of girls in this state in fields related to science, | ||
| technology, engineering, and mathematics. | ||
| (b) Texas Girls in STEM Day shall be regularly observed by | ||
| appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs in public | ||
| schools, public institutions of higher education, and other places | ||
| to: | ||
| (1) encourage girls in this state to consider career | ||
| fields in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and | ||
| (2) celebrate and honor the women of this state who | ||
| have excelled in those fields. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.925 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.925. TEXAS GIRLS IN STEM. In recognition of Texas | ||
| Girls in STEM Day, each school district may include throughout the | ||
| month of March appropriate instruction, activities, and programs to | ||
| encourage and celebrate women in career fields related to science, | ||
| technology, engineering, and mathematics. The instruction may | ||
| include programs that profile women in those fields and related | ||
| fields, including finance, information technology, data analytics, | ||
| cybersecurity, and health care cloud architecture. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3435 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 18, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3435 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
