| 8 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 5 | | relating to the sequencing of required English language arts |
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| 10 | 6 | | courses and mathematics courses in schools and conforming changes. |
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| 11 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Section 28.025(b-2), Education Code, as amended |
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| 13 | 9 | | by Chapters 211 (H.B. 5) and 214 (H.B. 2201), Acts of the 83rd |
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| 14 | 10 | | Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and amended to |
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| 15 | 11 | | read as follows: |
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| 16 | 12 | | (b-2) In adopting rules under Subsection (b-1), the State |
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| 17 | 13 | | Board of Education shall: |
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| 18 | 14 | | (1) provide for a student to comply with the |
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| 19 | 15 | | curriculum requirements for an advanced English course under |
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| 20 | 16 | | Subsection (b-1)(1) [taken after successful completion of English |
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| 21 | 17 | | I, English II, and English III], for an advanced mathematics course |
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| 22 | 18 | | under Subsection (b-1)(2) [taken after the successful completion of |
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| 23 | 19 | | Algebra I and geometry], and for any advanced science course under |
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| 24 | 20 | | Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing a course in the |
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| 25 | 21 | | appropriate content area that has been approved as an advanced |
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| 26 | 22 | | course by board rule or that is offered as an advanced course for |
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| 27 | 23 | | credit without board approval as provided by Section 28.002(g-1); |
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| 28 | 24 | | and |
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| 29 | 25 | | (2) allow a student to comply with the curriculum |
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| 30 | 26 | | requirements for the third and fourth mathematics credits under |
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| 31 | 27 | | Subsection (b-1)(2) or the third and fourth science credits under |
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| 32 | 28 | | Subsection (b-1)(3) by successfully completing an advanced career |
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| 33 | 29 | | and technical course designated by the State Board of Education as |
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| 34 | 30 | | containing substantively similar and rigorous academic content. |
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| 35 | 31 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 |
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| 36 | 32 | | school year. |
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| 37 | 33 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 38 | 34 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 39 | 35 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 40 | 36 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 41 | 37 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 38 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 39 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 40 | + | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the Senate on |
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| 41 | + | April 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that |
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| 42 | + | the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2017, by the |
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| 43 | + | following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 44 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 45 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 46 | + | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 826 passed the House, with |
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| 47 | + | amendment, on May 17, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 140, |
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| 48 | + | Nays 0, two present not voting. |
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| 49 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 50 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 51 | + | Approved: |
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| 52 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 53 | + | Date |
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| 54 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 55 | + | Governor |
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