Bill Text: TX HB726 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to outreach materials to foster awareness of recent public school curriculum changes.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB726 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB726-Introduced.html
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| By: Hernandez | H.B. No. 726 | |
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| relating to outreach materials to foster awareness of recent public | ||
| school curriculum changes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 28.015 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28.015. PUBLIC OUTREACH MATERIALS TO PROMOTE | ||
| CURRICULUM CHANGE AWARENESS. (a) The agency shall develop uniform | ||
| public outreach materials that explain the importance and outline | ||
| the details of public school curriculum changes under Chapter 211 | ||
| (H.B. 5), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, and | ||
| subsequent associated decisions by the State Board of Education. | ||
| The agency shall make the materials available to school districts. | ||
| (b) The materials developed under this section must: | ||
| (1) be available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese; | ||
| (2) be in a form that would allow school districts to | ||
| mail the information to students and parents; and | ||
| (3) include an explanation of: | ||
| (A) the basic career and college-readiness | ||
| components of each endorsement under Section 28.025(c-1); | ||
| (B) the curriculum requirements to gain | ||
| automatic college admission under Section 51.803; and | ||
| (C) applicable course, graduation plan, and | ||
| endorsement requirements for financial aid authorized under Title | ||
| 3, including curriculum requirements for: | ||
| (i) the TEXAS grant as provided under | ||
| Subchapter M, Chapter 56; | ||
| (ii) the Texas Educational Opportunity | ||
| Grant Program as provided under Subchapter P, Chapter 56; and | ||
| (iii) the Texas B-On-time loan program as | ||
| provided under Subchapter Q, Chapter 56. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency shall develop the | ||
| materials described under Section 28.015, Education Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, no later than December 1, 2015. | ||
| 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. | ||
