By Oliveira H.B. No. 685
76R2628 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to providing intensive English language development
1-3 training to certain public school students.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 29.056, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
1-7 (i) A district shall provide additional intensive English
1-8 language development training to each student who is still
1-9 classified as a student of limited English proficiency after
1-10 receiving instruction in English as a second language for a total
1-11 of at least two school years. The district shall provide the
1-12 training in a manner that enables each student, as soon as
1-13 possible, to participate equally in a regular all-English
1-14 instructional program as determined using the criteria specified by
1-15 Subsection (g).
1-16 SECTION 2. In computing the amount of time for which a
1-17 student has received instruction in English as a second language
1-18 for purposes of Section 29.056(i), Education Code, as added by
1-19 this Act, instruction provided before the effective date of this
1-20 Act is included.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 29.056(i), Education Code, as added by
1-22 this Act, applies beginning with the 2000-2001 school year.
1-23
1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.