Bill Text: TX HB194 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 194 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to providing for endorsements for public high school students enrolled in special education programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB194 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB194-Comm_Sub.html

	85R28003 PAM-F

	By: Bernal	H.B. No. 194

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 194:

	By: Deshotel	C.S.H.B. No. 194



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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, the curriculum requirements
	identified by the State Board of Education under Subsection (a) for
	the foundation high school program; and
	(2) successfully completing, without modification of
	the curriculum, all additional curriculum requirements for that
	endorsement required under Subsections (c-2)(1)(A)(ii),
	(1)(B)(ii), and (1)(C) and developed by the State Board of
	Education under Subsection (c-2)(2).
	(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 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.