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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.