Bill Text: TX HB435 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the instruction of American Sign Language in public high schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB435 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB435-Introduced.html
84R3082 CAE-D | ||
By: Raymond | H.B. No. 435 |
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relating to the instruction of American Sign Language in public | ||
high schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 28.002(a) and (e), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through | ||
grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum: | ||
(1) a foundation curriculum that includes: | ||
(A) English language arts; | ||
(B) mathematics; | ||
(C) science; and | ||
(D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United | ||
States, and world history, government, economics, with emphasis on | ||
the free enterprise system and its benefits, and geography; and | ||
(2) an enrichment curriculum that includes: | ||
(A) to the extent possible, subject to Subsection | ||
(e), languages other than English; | ||
(B) health, with emphasis on the importance of | ||
proper nutrition and exercise; | ||
(C) physical education; | ||
(D) fine arts; | ||
(E) career and technology education; | ||
(F) technology applications; | ||
(G) religious literature, including the Hebrew | ||
Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on | ||
history and literature; and | ||
(H) personal financial literacy. | ||
(e) American Sign Language is a language for purposes of | ||
Subsection (a)(2)(A). A public high school may offer an elective | ||
course in the language. The elective high school course may be | ||
offered through teleconferencing or another electronic means. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2016-2017 | ||
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, 2015. |