Bill Text: TX SB1776 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the development of an elective course for public high school students on the founding principles of the United States and the posting of the founding documents of the United States in public school buildings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1776 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1776-Comm_Sub.html

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86R31371 KJE-D
By: Campbell, et al. S.B. No. 1776
(Bell of Kaufman)
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1776: No.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the development of an elective course for public high
school students on the founding principles of the United States and
the posting of the founding documents of the United States in public
school buildings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 11.173 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.173. POSTING OF FOUNDING DOCUMENTS. The board of
trustees of an independent school district shall permit and
encourage the posting in a district classroom or school building of
a copy of the founding documents of the United States, including the
Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the
Federalist Papers, and the writings of the Founding Fathers of the
United States.
SECTION 2. Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by
Chapters 324 (S.B. 1488), 522 (S.B. 179), and 735 (S.B. 1153), Acts
of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and
amended to read as follows:
(b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to:
(1) a provision of this title establishing a criminal
offense; and
(2) a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as
applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this
title, relating to:
(A) the Public Education Information Management
System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with
this subchapter as determined by the commissioner;
(B) criminal history records under Subchapter C,
Chapter 22;
(C) reading instruments and accelerated reading
instruction programs under Section 28.006;
(D) accelerated instruction under Section
28.0211;
(E) high school graduation requirements under
Section 28.025;
(F) special education programs under Subchapter
A, Chapter 29;
(G) bilingual education under Subchapter B,
Chapter 29;
(H) prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E
or E-1, Chapter 29;
(I) extracurricular activities under Section
33.081;
(J) discipline management practices or behavior
management techniques under Section 37.0021;
(K) health and safety under Chapter 38;
(L) public school accountability under
Subchapters B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter 39, and Chapter 39A;
(M) the requirement under Section 21.006 to
report an educator's misconduct;
(N) intensive programs of instruction under
Section 28.0213;
(O) the right of a school employee to report a
crime, as provided by Section 37.148; [and]
(P) bullying prevention policies and procedures
under Section 37.0832;
(Q) the right of a school under Section 37.0052
to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a
disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student;
[and]
(R) the right under Section 37.0151 to report to
local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or
harassment;
(S) [(P)] a parent's right to information
regarding the provision of assistance for learning difficulties to
the parent's child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and
26.0081(c) and (d); and
(T) the posting of founding documents under
Section 11.173.
SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 28.0111 to read as follows:
Sec. 28.0111. FOUNDING PRINCIPLES ELECTIVE. (a) The State
Board of Education shall develop the curriculum for an elective
course on the founding principles of the United States that meets
the requirements for a one-half elective credit under Section
28.025.
(b) The course must focus on the principles underlying the
United States form of government, the Declaration of Independence,
the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the
writings of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
SECTION 4. Section 28.0111, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2020-2021 school year.
SECTION 5. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 6. 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.