1-1 By: Cuellar of Webb (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 45
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; April 15, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 15, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to public school foreign language programs.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 11.27(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-24 read as follows:
1-25 (b) Innovative programs that may be approved under this
1-26 section include, but are not limited to, programs relating to:
1-27 (1) school year restructuring;
1-28 (2) alternative learning environments;
1-29 (3) parental literacy;
1-30 (4) decentralization of organizational decisions;
1-31 (5) instructional technology;
1-32 (6) student and parental choice among public schools;
1-33 (7) child care;
1-34 (8) early childhood education;
1-35 (9) an extended school day;
1-36 (10) teacher and administrator development;
1-37 (11) continuous progress education;
1-38 (12) student-teacher ratios below 22:1 in elementary
1-39 grades;
1-40 (13) use of elementary school guidance counselors,
1-41 social workers, and other personnel in successful dropout
1-42 prevention programs;
1-43 (14) career development for students;
1-44 (15) bilingual training;
1-45 (16) the generation of more effective parental
1-46 involvement with the schools;
1-47 (17) school-age latch-key children;
1-48 (18) volunteer efforts with the private sector;
1-49 (19) coordination of school activities with community
1-50 health and human services programs and other community resources;
1-51 (20) magnet schools;
1-52 (21) interdisciplinary curriculum;
1-53 (22) peer tutoring;
1-54 (23) counseling of families of at-risk students; <and>
1-55 (24) comprehensive coordination with health and human
1-56 service delivery systems; and
1-57 (25) foreign language education with priority given to
1-58 elementary and middle school programs.
1-59 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-60 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-61 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-62 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-63 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-64 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-65 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-67 Austin,
1-68 Texas
2-1 April 15, 1993
2-2 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-3 President of the Senate
2-4 Sir:
2-5 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No. 45,
2-6 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-7 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-8 pass and be printed.
2-9 Ratliff,
2-10 Chairman
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2-12 WITNESSES
2-13 FOR AGAINST ON
2-14 ___________________________________________________________________
2-15 Name: Ines Garcia x
2-16 Representing: Tx Education Agency
2-17 City: Austin
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2-19 Name: Jack Kelly x
2-20 Representing: TSTA
2-21 City: Austin
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