Bill Text: TX HB4454 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of social and emotional learning standards for public school educational programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB4454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4454-Introduced.html
86R13809 MM-D | ||
By: Rodriguez | H.B. No. 4454 |
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relating to the adoption of social and emotional learning standards | ||
for public school educational programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.9061 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.9061. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING. (a) The State | ||
Board of Education shall adopt developmentally appropriate, | ||
evidence-based standards for social and emotional learning, | ||
including standards regarding: | ||
(1) the development of competency in self-management, | ||
self-awareness, and social awareness for students; and | ||
(2) responsible decision-making. | ||
(b) Each school district shall provide in appropriate | ||
educational programs in each grade level the social and emotional | ||
learning standards adopted under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |