Bill Text: TX SB1561 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a study by the State Board of Education on the instructional day and academic year requirements necessary to complete the required curriculum in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-16 - Referred to Public Education [SB1561 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1561-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the State Board of Education on the instructional day and academic year requirements necessary to complete the required curriculum in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-16 - Referred to Public Education [SB1561 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1561-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 1561 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2017; March 21, 2017, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 9, 2017, | ||
reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 11, | ||
Nays 0; May 9, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 | By: Taylor of Collin | |
Amend S.B. 1561 by adding the following appropriately | ||
numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering the subsequent | ||
SECTIONS of the bill appropriately: | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if a specific | ||
appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a | ||
general appropriations act of the 85th Legislature. | ||
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relating to a study by the State Board of Education on the | ||
instructional day and academic year requirements necessary to | ||
complete the required curriculum in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The State Board of Education shall conduct | ||
a study to determine, for kindergarten through 12th grade, the | ||
length of the instructional day and of the academic year that would | ||
be necessary to allow for the completion of the required curriculum | ||
identified by the board under Section 28.002, Education Code. | ||
(b) Not later than October 1, 2018, the board shall deliver | ||
a report containing the results of the study to the governor and the | ||
legislature. | ||
(c) This Act expires September 1, 2019. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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