By Armbrister S.B. No. 255
76R4297 BDH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to enrichment curriculum requirements.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 28.002(d), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (d) The State Board of Education, after consulting with
1-7 educators, parents, business and industry representatives, and
1-8 employers, shall by rule identify the essential knowledge and
1-9 skills of each subject of the enrichment curriculum that all
1-10 students should be able to demonstrate. As a condition of
1-11 accreditation, each district must provide instruction in the
1-12 essential knowledge and skills at appropriate grade levels, except
1-13 as provided by Section 28.004. [Each district shall use the
1-14 essential knowledge and skills identified by the board as
1-15 guidelines in providing instruction in the enrichment curriculum.]
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-17 school year.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.