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Floor Packet Page No. 221
Amend HB 2 in Article 2 of the bill by adding a new
appropriately lettered part to read as follows and renumbering
subsequent parts of Article 2 accordingly:
PART ___. CURRICULUM
SECTION 2__.__. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) In identifying the essential knowledge and skills of
United States history, the State Board of Education shall consult
with an advisory committee appointed under this subsection in
addition to those persons with whom the board is required under
Subsection (c) to consult. Each member of the board shall appoint
to the advisory committee a person to represent that member on the
committee. Each representative serves at the will of the
appointing board member and must be a person with expertise in one
or more areas of United States history. The board must include
among the essential knowledge and skills of United States history
that the board identifies knowledge and skills of United States
history from the colonial period through the present. The amount of
class time provided to study United States history that occurred
before 1877 and the amount of testing over history that occurred
before 1877, including any assessment required under Section
39.023, must be as equal as practicable to the amount of class time
and testing for history beginning in 1877.
SECTION 2__.__. As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the State Board of Education shall identify the
essential knowledge and skills of the public school United States
history curriculum in accordance with Section 28.002(d), Education
Code, as added by this Act, and approve new United States history
instructional materials in accordance with Section 31.0252,
Education Code, as added by this Act.