Bill Text: TX HB4525 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the approval of career and technology courses by the State Board of Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Placed on intent calendar [HB4525 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4525-Comm_Sub.html
By: Gates (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) | H.B. No. 4525 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 2021; | ||
May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 24, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 2; May 24, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the approval of career and technology courses by the | ||
State Board of Education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.002(o), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(o) In approving career and technology courses, the State | ||
Board of Education must: | ||
(1) determine that at least 50 percent of the approved | ||
courses are cost-effective for a school district to implement; and | ||
(2) in scheduling or initiating a course review to | ||
provide updated and relevant course offerings, consider relevant | ||
economic and market conditions affecting the workforce of this | ||
state. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
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, 2021. | ||
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