Bill Text: TX HB4135 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a statewide literacy improvement plan for public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Public Education [HB4135 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4135-Introduced.html
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By: Guerra | H.B. No. 4135 |
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relating to a statewide literacy improvement plan for public | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.937 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.937. STATEWIDE LITERACY IMPROVEMENT PLAN. (a) The | ||
agency shall develop a statewide plan for improving literacy among | ||
public school students in partnership with one or more | ||
organizations, such as Literacy First, that provide tutoring | ||
services, one-to-one literacy interventions, teacher and staff | ||
training, instructional coaching, and other supports related to | ||
improving literacy in early grades. | ||
(b) In developing the plan under Subsection (a), the agency | ||
shall include: | ||
(1) a draft budget for implementation of the plan; and | ||
(2) a strategy that provides for a staggered | ||
implementation of the plan that begins in schools identified by the | ||
agency as having the most need for literacy improvement and is | ||
gradually expanded to each school district and open-enrollment | ||
charter school in the state. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency shall develop the | ||
statewide literacy improvement plan under Section 29.937, | ||
Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable and not | ||
later than September 1, 2024. | ||
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, 2023. |