| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to course content requirements for biology instruction |
|
|
provided by a public school. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Sec. 28.002(a), REQUIRED CURRICULUM, is amended |
|
|
to read as follows: |
|
|
(a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through |
|
|
grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum: |
|
|
(1) a foundation curriculum that includes: |
|
|
(A) English language arts; |
|
|
(B) mathematics; |
|
|
(C) science, including biology courses that must identify |
|
|
major stages of human development of an unborn child; including |
|
|
when the heart starts beating, the development of vital organs, and |
|
|
sensory development including hearing, seeing, and feeling pain; |
|
|
and |
|
|
(D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United States, and |
|
|
world history, government, economics, with emphasis on the free |
|
|
enterprise system and its benefits, and geography; and |
|
|
(2) an enrichment curriculum that includes: |
|
|
(A) to the extent possible, languages other than English; |
|
|
(B) health, with emphasis on the importance of proper |
|
|
nutrition and exercise; |
|
|
(C) physical education; |
|
|
(D) fine arts; |
|
|
(E) career and technology education; |
|
|
(F) technology applications; |
|
|
(G) religious literature, including the Hebrew Scriptures |
|
|
(Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on history and |
|
|
literature; and |
|
|
(H) personal financial literacy. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act applies to the next adoption of science |
|
|
curriculum. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
|
|
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
|
|
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
|
|
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
|
|
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |