81R6779 CS-D
By: Howard of Fort Bend H.B. No. 4488
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an alternative graduation plan for students planning to
attend certain postsecondary educational institutions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b-1) The State Board of Education by rule shall require
that:
(1) except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the
curriculum requirements for the recommended and advanced high
school programs under Subsection (a) include a requirement that
students successfully complete:
(A) four courses in each subject of the
foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1); or
(B) a career and technology curriculum that
provides a program of rigorous, standards-based coursework
designed to prepare students to attend a postsecondary educational
institution that primarily offers associate's degrees or
certificates or other credentials other than baccalaureate or
advanced degrees; and
(2) one or more courses offered in the required
curriculum for the recommended and advanced high school programs
include a research writing component.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with students who
enter the ninth grade in the 2010-2011 school year.
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, 2009.