By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 3013
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to curriculum requirements for certain public school
 1-3     students.
 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)  In accordance with rules adopted by the State Board of
 1-8     Education, a school district may allow a student in middle school,
 1-9     junior high school, or high school to complete a remedial
1-10     mathematics course instead of a required enrichment curriculum
1-11     course if the student performs unsatisfactorily on the mathematics
1-12     portion of an assessment instrument adopted under Subchapter B,
1-13     Chapter 39.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-15     school year.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.