By Seaman                                              H.B. No. 334
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the curriculum requirements and transcript forms for a
 1-3     career and technology high school program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 28.025(a) and (c), Education Code, are
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The State Board of Education by rule shall determine
 1-8     curriculum requirements for the minimum, career and technology,
 1-9     recommended, and advanced high school programs that are consistent
1-10     with the required curriculum under Section  28.002. The curriculum
1-11     requirements for the career and technology program must also be
1-12     consistent with the state plan for career and technology education
1-13     required under Section 29.182 and agency requirements prescribed
1-14     under Section 29.185.  A student may graduate and  receive a
1-15     diploma only if the student successfully completes:
1-16                 (1)  the curriculum requirements identified by the
1-17     board and the exit-level assessment instrument administered under
1-18     Section 39.023(c) or each end-of-course assessment instrument
1-19     required to be adopted under Section 39.023(d); or
1-20                 (2)  an individualized education program developed
1-21     under Section 29.005.
1-22           (c)  Each school district shall report the academic
1-23     achievement record of students who have completed a [minimum,
1-24     recommended, or advanced] high school program on transcript forms
 2-1     adopted by the State  Board of Education.  The transcript forms
 2-2     adopted by the board must be designed to clearly differentiate
 2-3     between each of the high school programs and identify whether a
 2-4     student received a diploma or a certificate of coursework
 2-5     completion.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules
 2-7     relating to a career and technology high school program and the
 2-8     appropriate transcript forms, in accordance with Section 28.025,
 2-9     Education Code, as amended by this Act, not later than March 1,
2-10     2000.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.