Bill Text: TX HB165 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to providing for endorsements for public high school students enrolled in special education programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB165 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB165-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 165 |
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relating to providing for endorsements for public high school | ||
students enrolled in special education programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.025, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (c-7) and (c-8) to read as follows: | ||
(c-7) Subject to Subsection (c-8), a student who is enrolled | ||
in a special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, may | ||
earn an endorsement on the student's transcript by: | ||
(1) successfully completing, with or without | ||
modification of the curriculum: | ||
(A) the curriculum requirements identified by | ||
the State Board of Education under Subsection (a); and | ||
(B) the additional endorsement curriculum | ||
requirements prescribed by the State Board of Education under | ||
Subsection (c-2); and | ||
(2) successfully completing all curriculum | ||
requirements for that endorsement adopted by the State Board of | ||
Education: | ||
(A) without modification of the curriculum; or | ||
(B) with modification of the curriculum, | ||
provided that the curriculum, as modified, is sufficiently rigorous | ||
as determined by the student's admission, review, and dismissal | ||
committee. | ||
(c-8) For purposes of Subsection (c-7), the admission, | ||
review, and dismissal committee of a student in a special education | ||
program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, shall determine whether the | ||
student is required to achieve satisfactory performance on an | ||
end-of-course assessment instrument to earn an endorsement on the | ||
student's transcript. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 165 was passed by the House on March | ||
26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 165 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |