Bill Text: TX HB1650 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to successful completion of a United States history dual credit course as an alternative to compliance with the United States history end-of-course assessment requirement.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1650 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1650-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Goldman, Guillen, Bonnen of Brazoria | H.B. No. 1650 | |
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| relating to successful completion of a United States history dual | ||
| credit course as an alternative to compliance with the United | ||
| States history end-of-course assessment requirement. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-5) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-5) A student enrolled in an eligible United States | ||
| history dual credit course provided through an institution of | ||
| higher education or a private or independent institution of higher | ||
| education, as those terms are defined under Section 61.003, is | ||
| eligible to be exempt from administration of the United States | ||
| history end-of-course assessment instrument as prescribed by | ||
| Subsection (a). A student who fails to successfully complete the | ||
| United States history dual credit course must take the United | ||
| States history end-of-course assessment instrument. The | ||
| commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary for the administration | ||
| of this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
