Bill Text: TX HB399 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain high school students successfully complete four courses in each subject of the foundation curriculum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-19 - Left pending in committee [HB399 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB399-Introduced.html
  83R2769 JSL-D
 
  By: Krause H.B. No. 399
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirement that certain high school students
  successfully complete four courses in each subject of the
  foundation curriculum.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b-2)  In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State
  Board of Education shall provide each school district the
  discretion to allow a student to comply with the curriculum
  requirements for a mathematics course under Subsection (b-1)(1)
  taken after the successful completion of Algebra I and geometry and
  either after the successful completion of or concurrently with
  Algebra II or a science course under Subsection (b-1)(1) taken
  after the successful completion of biology and chemistry and either
  after the successful completion of or concurrently with physics by
  successfully completing an advanced career and technical course
  designated by the school district [State Board of Education as
  containing substantively similar and rigorous academic
  content].  A student may use the option provided by this subsection
  for not more than two courses.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2013.
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