Bill Text: TX HB4545 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to social studies curriculum in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Public Education [HB4545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4545-Introduced.html
88R11226 ANG-D | ||
By: Ordaz | H.B. No. 4545 |
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relating to social studies curriculum in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 28.002(h-1) and (h-6), Education Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(h-1) In adopting the essential knowledge and skills for the | ||
foundation curriculum under Subsection (a)(1), the State Board of | ||
Education shall, as appropriate, adopt essential knowledge and | ||
skills that develop each student's civic knowledge, including an | ||
understanding of: | ||
(1) the fundamental moral, political, and | ||
intellectual foundations of the American experiment in | ||
self-government; | ||
(2) the history, qualities, traditions, and features | ||
of civic engagement in the United States; | ||
(3) the structure, function, and processes of | ||
government institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; | ||
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(4) the roles and contributions of culturally and | ||
racially diverse groups to the economic, political, and social | ||
development of this state and the United States, including the | ||
histories, contributions, and perspectives of: | ||
(A) women; | ||
(B) Native Americans, Indigenous Americans, and | ||
American Indians; | ||
(C) African Americans; | ||
(D) Latinos; | ||
(E) Asian Americans; | ||
(F) Pacific Islanders; | ||
(G) persons who identify as lesbian, gay, | ||
bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual; | ||
(H) persons with disabilities; | ||
(I) members of persecuted religious minorities; | ||
and | ||
(J) members of other ethnic and cultural groups | ||
that have contributed to the history of this state and the United | ||
States; and | ||
(5) the founding documents of the United States, | ||
including: | ||
(A) the entirety of the Declaration of | ||
Independence; | ||
(B) the entirety of the United States | ||
Constitution; | ||
(C) the Federalist Papers, including the | ||
entirety of Essays 10 and 51; | ||
(D) excerpts from Alexis de Tocqueville's | ||
Democracy in America; | ||
(E) the transcript of the first Lincoln-Douglas | ||
debate; | ||
(F) the writings of the founding fathers of the | ||
United States; | ||
(G) the entirety of Frederick Douglass's | ||
speeches "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" and "What the | ||
Black Man Wants"; and | ||
(H) the entirety of Martin Luther King Jr.'s | ||
speech "I Have a Dream." | ||
(h-6) In providing instruction regarding the founding | ||
documents of the United States as described by Subsection (h-1)(5) | ||
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shall use those documents as part of the instructional materials | ||
for the instruction. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
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, 2023. |