Bill Text: TX HB1817 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to elective courses in ethnic studies for middle school and high school students.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB1817 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1817-Introduced.html
| 85R7634 SRS-D | ||
| By: Anchia | H.B. No. 1817 | |
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| relating to elective courses in ethnic studies for middle school | ||
| and high school students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 28.0111 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28.0111. ELECTIVE COURSES IN ETHNIC STUDIES. (a) A | ||
| school district may offer to middle and high school students one or | ||
| more English language arts or social studies elective courses in | ||
| ethnic studies that comply with curriculum standards adopted under | ||
| Subsection (b) or (c). | ||
| (b) The State Board of Education shall adopt separate | ||
| content-based curriculum standards for each of the following ethnic | ||
| studies courses: | ||
| (1) Mexican American studies; | ||
| (2) African American studies; | ||
| (3) Native American studies; and | ||
| (4) Asian American studies. | ||
| (c) The State Board of Education may adopt separate | ||
| content-based curriculum standards for additional ethnic studies | ||
| courses not specified in Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) The curriculum standards must: | ||
| (1) include: | ||
| (A) key historical figures, events, and dates; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) information regarding the ethnic group's | ||
| contributions to society; and | ||
| (2) be reviewed by academic experts with knowledge in | ||
| the relevant ethnic studies field before final adoption by the | ||
| State Board of Education. | ||
| SECTION 2. The State Board of Education shall adopt | ||
| curriculum standards for ethnic studies courses as required by | ||
| Section 28.0111, Education Code, as added by this Act, not later | ||
| than the date that permits school districts to offer ethnic studies | ||
| courses that comply with the curriculum standards beginning with | ||
| the 2018-2019 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. | ||
