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Amend CSHB 2 in Part B, Article 2, of the bill by adding new 

appropriately numbered SECTIONS to read as follows and renumbering 

subsequent SECTIONS of Part B, Article 2, accordingly:

	SECTION 2B.__.  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 at the high school level, 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 

at the high school level that the board identifies, knowledge and 

skills of United States history from the colonial period through 

the present.  The amount of class time at the high school level 

provided to study United States history that occurred before 1877 

and the amount of testing at the high school level 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 at the high school level for history 

beginning in 1877.

	SECTION 2B.__.  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 at the high school level 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 31.0253, Education Code, as added by this 

Act.