Bill Text: TX HB2914 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to instruction in and an allotment for technology applications courses in computer programming.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB2914 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2914-Introduced.html
| 85R11669 MEW-D | ||
| By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 2914 | |
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| relating to instruction in and an allotment for technology | ||
| applications courses in computer programming. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.0490 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.0490. COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM PROVIDER. (a) With | ||
| approval from the commissioner, a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school may contract with a computer science | ||
| program provider to provide instruction in a technology | ||
| applications course in computer programming to students in grades | ||
| two through eight. | ||
| (b) An instructor employed through an approved computer | ||
| science program provider providing instruction to students in a | ||
| technology applications course in computer programming is not | ||
| required to hold a teaching certificate. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.1543 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.1543. COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COURSE ALLOTMENT. (a) | ||
| For each student in average daily attendance in an approved | ||
| technology applications course in computer programming in grades | ||
| two through eight, a district is entitled to an annual allotment of | ||
| $50. | ||
| (b) Funds allocated under this section must be used to | ||
| provide technology applications courses in computer programming to | ||
| students in grades two through eight. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than March 1, 2018, the State Board of | ||
| Education shall review and update the essential knowledge and | ||
| skills of the technology applications curriculums in grades two | ||
| through eight to ensure that the essential knowledge and skills | ||
| incorporate relevant standards for computer programming. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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. | ||
