Bill Text: TX HB678 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the public high school graduation credit requirements for a language other than English.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB678-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the public high school graduation credit requirements for a language other than English.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB678-Comm_Sub.html
By: Guillen, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Powell) | H.B. No. 678 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2019; | ||
April 4, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 14, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 14, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the public high school graduation credit requirements | ||
for a language other than English. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-21), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b-21) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State | ||
Board of Education shall adopt criteria to allow a student to comply | ||
with the curriculum requirement for one credit under Subsection | ||
(b-1)(5) by successfully completing at an elementary school either | ||
a dual language immersion program under Section 28.0051 or a course | ||
in American Sign Language [ |
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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, 2019. | ||
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