Bill Text: TX HB435 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 435 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the instruction of American Sign Language in public high schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB435 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB435-Introduced.html

	84R3082 CAE-D

	By: Raymond	H.B. No. 435



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the instruction of American Sign Language in public
	high schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 28.002(a) and (e), Education Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through
	grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum:
	(1) a foundation curriculum that includes:
	(A) English language arts;
	(B) mathematics;
	(C) science; and
	(D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United
	States, and world history, government, economics, with emphasis on
	the free enterprise system and its benefits, and geography; and
	(2) an enrichment curriculum that includes:
	(A) to the extent possible, subject to Subsection
	(e), languages other than English;
	(B) health, with emphasis on the importance of
	proper nutrition and exercise;
	(C) physical education;
	(D) fine arts;
	(E) career and technology education;
	(F) technology applications;
	(G) religious literature, including the Hebrew
	Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on
	history and literature; and
	(H) personal financial literacy.
	(e) American Sign Language is a language for purposes of
	Subsection (a)(2)(A). A public high school may offer an elective
	course in the language. The elective high school course may be
	offered through teleconferencing or another electronic means.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2016-2017
	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, 2015.