By Barrientos S.B. No. 1869
75R4507 CAS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to instruction in health and certain life skills in public
1-3 schools.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 28.002(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through
1-8 grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum:
1-9 (1) a foundation curriculum that includes:
1-10 (A) English language arts;
1-11 (B) mathematics;
1-12 (C) science; and
1-13 (D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United
1-14 States, and world history, government, and geography; and
1-15 (2) an enrichment curriculum that includes:
1-16 (A) to the extent possible, languages other than
1-17 English;
1-18 (B) health, with instruction in child
1-19 development and parenting skills;
1-20 (C) physical education;
1-21 (D) fine arts;
1-22 (E) economics, with emphasis on the free
1-23 enterprise system and its benefits;
1-24 (F) career and technology education; and
2-1 (G) technology applications.
2-2 SECTION 2. Section 29.085(a), Education Code, is amended to
2-3 read as follows:
2-4 (a) A school district shall [may] provide an integrated
2-5 program of educational and support services for students who are
2-6 pregnant or who are parents.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
2-8 school year.
2-9 SECTION 4. 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.