1-1 By: West (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 1468 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997; 1-3 May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Education; May 16, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; 1-6 May 16, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1468 By: Bivins 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the Ector County Independent School District model 1-11 career-targeted transition program. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 29.186 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 29.186. PILOT PROJECT. (a) The Ector County 1-16 Independent School District may conduct a pilot project for a 1-17 career-targeted program. 1-18 (b) The program may develop, implement, and assess a high 1-19 school program with an integrated curriculum to provide high school 1-20 graduates with the elements necessary to develop a strong work 1-21 ethic, academic, technological, and communications skills, the 1-22 ability to work as part of a team, and specific career goals and 1-23 skills. The program must provide students with the information and 1-24 training necessary for competency in curriculum areas and must 1-25 assess student competency. 1-26 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the 1-27 program shall: 1-28 (1) offer a curriculum consistent with Sec. 28.002 1-29 (a); 1-30 (2) establish graduation requirements consistent with 1-31 rules adopted under 28.025 but which reflect integrated curriculum 1-32 and course requirements; 1-33 (3) administer the assessment instrument required 1-34 under 39.023 (b); and 1-35 (4) be exempt from administering assessment 1-36 instruments required under 39.023 (c). 1-37 (d) Using state funds appropriated for that purpose, the 1-38 agency shall monitor, evaluate and assess the development and 1-39 implementation of the program. 1-40 (e) This section expires August 31, 2007. 1-41 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-47 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-48 * * * * *