86R6714 MP-D
By: Burrows, Springer, Ashby, Shaheen, H.B. No. 2393
Guillen
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to permitting a hunter education component as part of a
school district's physical education curriculum offered to certain
students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) The State Board of Education, in consultation with the
Parks and Wildlife Department, shall develop a hunter education
course for students in grades 7 through 12 that a school district
may use in the district's physical education curriculum under
Subsection (a)(2)(C).
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
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, 2019.