By Longoria                                            H.B. No. 183
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                                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 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
 1-7           (l)  The State Board of Education shall include instruction
 1-8     in basic values of the United States in the essential knowledge and
 1-9     skills of social studies.  If approved by a school district's board
1-10     of trustees, a district may provide instruction in a basic value
1-11     that does not conflict with the values included in the essential
1-12     knowledge and skills.  The values required by the State Board of
1-13     Education to be studied shall include:
1-14                 (1)  respect for oneself and other people, including
1-15     family;
1-16                 (2)  cooperation with and respect for law enforcement
1-17     officials;
1-18                 (3)  respect for authority;
1-19                 (4)  the work ethic;
1-20                 (5)  the dignity of all work; and
1-21                 (6)  respect for the property of others.
1-22           SECTION 2.  Beginning with the 2000-2001 school year, each
1-23     school district shall provide instruction in basic values of the
1-24     United States, as provided by Section 28.002(l), Education Code, as
 2-1     added by this Act.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.