1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the Ector County Independent School District model 1-3 career-targeted transition program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 29.186 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 29.186. PILOT PROJECT. (a) The Ector County 1-8 Independent School District may conduct a pilot project for a 1-9 career-targeted transition program. 1-10 (b) The program may develop, implement, and assess a high 1-11 school program with an integrated curriculum to provide high school 1-12 graduates with the elements necessary to develop a strong work 1-13 ethic, academic, technological, and communications skills, the 1-14 ability to work as part of a team, and specific career goals and 1-15 skills. The program must provide students with the information and 1-16 training necessary for competency in curriculum areas and must 1-17 assess student competency. 1-18 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the 1-19 program shall: 1-20 (1) offer a curriculum consistent with Section 1-21 28.002(a); 1-22 (2) establish graduation requirements consistent with 1-23 rules adopted under Section 28.025 but which reflect integrated 1-24 curriculum and course requirements; 2-1 (3) administer the assessment instrument required 2-2 under Section 39.023(b); and 2-3 (4) be exempt from administering assessment 2-4 instruments required under Section 39.023(c). 2-5 (d) Using state funds appropriated for that purpose, the 2-6 agency shall monitor, evaluate, and assess the development and 2-7 implementation of the program. 2-8 (e) This section expires August 31, 2007. 2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1468 was passed by the House on May 10, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1468 on May 28, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House adopted H.C.R. No. 328 authorizing certain corrections in H.B. No. 1468 on May 31, 1997. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1468 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the Senate adopted H.C.R. No. 328 authorizing certain corrections in H.B. No. 1468 on June 1, 1997, by a viva-voce vote. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor