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House Bill 692 |
House Author: Farias |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte |
House Bill 692 amends the Education Code to require the State Board of Education, in adopting rules regarding the curriculum requirements for the minimum, recommended, and advanced high school programs, to allow a student who is unable to participate in physical activity because of disability or illness to substitute one credit in English language arts, mathematics, science, or social studies or one academic elective credit for the required physical education credit. The bill prohibits a substituted credit from also being used by the student to satisfy a graduation requirement other than completion of the physical education credit and requires the board's rules to provide for the determination regarding a student's ability to participate in physical activity to be made by the student's admission, review, and dismissal committee, the committee established for the student under the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or a committee established by the district of persons with appropriate knowledge regarding the student, as applicable.