Bill Text: TX HB3008 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a civic education project fund for supporting student civic education projects and educator professional development related to those projects.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3008 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3008-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Talarico, Ashby | H.B. No. 3008 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3008: | |||
| By: Bernal | C.S.H.B. No. 3008 | ||
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| relating to the establishment of a civic education project fund for | ||
| supporting student civic education projects and educator | ||
| professional development related to those projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.919 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.919. CIVIC EDUCATION PROJECT FUND. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Civic education project" means a project that | ||
| includes the concepts of civic engagement and the rights and | ||
| responsibilities of citizenship and may combine out-of-school | ||
| service experience with academic study. | ||
| (2) "Fund" means the civic education project fund. | ||
| (b) The civic education project fund is an account in the | ||
| general revenue fund administered by the commissioner. | ||
| (c) The fund consists of: | ||
| (1) gifts, grants, or donations to the fund; and | ||
| (2) beginning September 1, 2021, money appropriated, | ||
| credited, or transferred to the fund by or at the direction of the | ||
| legislature. | ||
| (d) The fund is established for the purpose of: | ||
| (1) providing public school students enrolled in the | ||
| fourth or a higher grade who are economically disadvantaged, as | ||
| determined by the commissioner, the opportunity to complete a civic | ||
| education project; and | ||
| (2) supporting educator professional development to | ||
| assist educators in preparing students described by Subdivision (1) | ||
| to successfully complete a civic education project. | ||
| (e) Money in the fund may be used only as provided by this | ||
| section. | ||
| (f) In allocating money from the fund, the commissioner may | ||
| give priority to a school district in which at least 40 percent of | ||
| the students enrolled in the district on September 1 of the school | ||
| year are economically disadvantaged, as determined by the | ||
| commissioner. | ||
| (g) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
