Bill Text: TX HB422 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to career and technology education or fine arts credits required for high school graduation.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Left pending in committee [HB422 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB422-Introduced.html
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| By: J. Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 422 | |
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| relating to career and technology education or fine arts credits | ||
| required for high school graduation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) The State Board of Education by rule shall require | ||
| that: | ||
| (1) except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the | ||
| curriculum requirements for the recommended and advanced high | ||
| school programs under Subsection (a) include a requirement that | ||
| students successfully complete: | ||
| (A) four credits in each subject of the | ||
| foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1), including at | ||
| least one-half credit in government and at least one-half credit in | ||
| economics to meet the social studies requirement; | ||
| (B) for the recommended high school program, two | ||
| credits in the same language in a language other than English under | ||
| Section 28.002(a)(2)(A) and, for the advanced high school program, | ||
| three credits in the same language in a language other than English | ||
| under Section 28.002(a)(2)(A); and | ||
| (C) for the recommended high school program, six | ||
| elective credits and, for the advanced high school program, five | ||
| elective credits; | ||
| (2) one or more credits offered in the required | ||
| curriculum for the recommended and advanced high school programs | ||
| include a research writing component; and | ||
| (3) the curriculum requirements for the minimum, | ||
| recommended, and advanced high school programs under Subsection (a) | ||
| include a requirement that students successfully complete: | ||
| (A) one credit in fine arts under Section | ||
| 28.002(a)(2)(D) or one credit in career and technology education | ||
| under Section 28.002(a)(2)(E); and | ||
| (B) except as provided by Subsection (b-11), one | ||
| credit in physical education under Section 28.002(a)(2)(C). | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
