Bill Text: TX HB678 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the public high school graduation credit requirements for a language other than English.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB678-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 678 |
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relating to the public high school graduation credit requirements | ||
for a language other than English. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-21), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b-21) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State | ||
Board of Education shall adopt criteria to allow a student to comply | ||
with the curriculum requirement for one credit under Subsection | ||
(b-1)(5) by successfully completing at an elementary school either | ||
a dual language immersion program under Section 28.0051 or a course | ||
in American Sign Language [ |
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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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 678 was passed by the House on April | ||
2, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 678 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |