Bill Text: TX SB1777 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1777 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment instrument for public high school students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Co-author authorized [SB1777 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1777-Introduced.html

	2019S0331-1 03/04/19

	By: Campbell	S.B. No. 1777


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment
	instrument for public high school students.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c-7) to read as follows:
	(c-7) The United States history end-of-course assessment
	instrument adopted under Subsection (c) must include 10 questions
	randomly selected by the agency from the civics test administered
	by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as part
	of the naturalization process under the federal Immigration and
	Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). The agency shall:
	(1) ensure that only questions aligning with the
	United States history curriculum adopted under Subchapter A,
	Chapter 28, are included in the end-of-course assessment
	instrument; and
	(2) annually report which questions were included in
	the end-of-course assessment instrument under this subsection,
	their answers, and the campus, district, and statewide data
	associated with students' performance under this subsection.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with students who
	enter the ninth grade during the 2019-2020 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, 2019.