By: Longoria H.B. No. 1527 73R5417 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to required instruction of public school students in basic 1-3 values of the United States. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.101, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) The State Board of Education shall designate instruction 1-8 in basic values of the United States as an essential element of 1-9 social studies. The values studied shall include respect for 1-10 oneself and other people, including family, cooperation with and 1-11 respect for law enforcement officials, respect for authority, the 1-12 work ethic, the dignity of all work, and respect for the property 1-13 of others. 1-14 SECTION 2. Beginning with the 1994-1995 school year, each 1-15 school district shall provide instruction in basic values of the 1-16 United States, as provided by Section 21.101(j), Education Code, as 1-17 added by this Act. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.