By Sadler                                             H.B. No. 1048
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to college advanced placement courses offered by public
 1-3     high schools.
 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)  Each school district shall offer at each regular high
 1-8     school campus in the district a total of at least five college
 1-9     advanced placement courses.  In this subsection, "college advanced
1-10     placement course" has the meaning assigned by Section 28.051.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 28.002(l), Education Code, as added by
1-12     this Act, applies beginning with the 2001-2002 school year.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.