82R11703 KKA-D
By: Watson S.B. No. 1326
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to procedures applicable to adoption of the public school
curriculum by the State Board of Education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c-2) to read as follows:
(c-2) The State Board of Education's procedures for
adopting the essential knowledge and skills of the required
curriculum under Subsection (c) must provide that:
(1) any amendment to the proposed essential knowledge
and skills of a subject that will be offered during a board meeting
must be submitted to other board members and, through posting on the
agency's website and any other appropriate method of providing
access, made available for public review not later than the third
business day preceding the date of the board meeting in order to be
eligible for adoption by a majority of the board members present and
voting;
(2) any amendment described by Subdivision (1) that is
not submitted to other board members and made available for public
review by the date and in the manner stated by that subdivision may
be adopted only by a vote of two-thirds of the entire membership of
the board; and
(3) the board may not vote on final adoption of the
complete essential knowledge and skills of a subject, as amended by
board members in accordance with Subdivisions (1) and (2), unless
at least 24 hours have elapsed since the time at which the final
amendment was adopted.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.