By Wise                                                H.B. No. 291
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to instruction concerning child safety issues for public
 1-3     school students.
 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 specific instruction concerning
1-19     child safety issues, including methods a student may use for
1-20     self-protection against abuse or abduction;
1-21                       (C)  physical education;
1-22                       (D)  fine arts;
1-23                       (E)  economics, with emphasis on the free
1-24     enterprise system and its benefits;
 2-1                       (F)  career and technology education; and
 2-2                       (G)  technology applications.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  Section 28.002(a), Education Code, as amended by
 2-4     this Act, applies beginning with the 1999-2000 school year.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.