S.B. No. 826
AN ACT
relating to the sequencing of required English language arts
courses and mathematics courses in schools and conforming changes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, as amended
by Chapters 211 (H.B. 5) and 214 (H.B. 2201), Acts of the 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and amended to
read as follows:
(b-2) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State
Board of Education shall:
(1) provide for a student to comply with the
curriculum requirements for an advanced English course under
Subsection (b-1)(1) [taken after successful completion of English
I, English II, and English III], for an advanced mathematics course
under Subsection (b-1)(2) [taken after the successful completion of
Algebra I and geometry], and for any advanced science course under
Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing a course in the
appropriate content area that has been approved as an advanced
course by board rule or that is offered as an advanced course for
credit without board approval as provided by Section 28.002(g-1);
and
(2) allow a student to comply with the curriculum
requirements for the third and fourth mathematics credits under
Subsection (b-1)(2) or the third and fourth science credits under
Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing an advanced career
and technical course designated by the State Board of Education as
containing substantively similar and rigorous academic content.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
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, 2017.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the Senate on
April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2017, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 17, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor