SRC-CTC S.B. 1731 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1731
By: Cain
Education
4/9/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, technology is changing the workplace and can make job and career
choices confusing.  As proposed, S.B. 1731 helps students make better
informed career decisions by requiring the public schools to offer programs
that enable students to establish a better connection to the modern
workplace through better, more graphic descriptions of the equipment,
conditions, and characteristics of the modern workplace. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 29.181, Education Code, to require each public
school student to master the basic skills and knowledge necessary for,
among other things, making informed career and job choices based on an
experience of workplace characteristics; descriptions of the operating
equipment, conditions and how persons do work today; establishing a
connection with the workplace to provide a sense of the workplace and its
environment; and expectations of the various workplaces. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2001.