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| 1 | 1 | 86R8409 JES-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Menéndez S.B. No. 885 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to requiring the incorporation of instruction in digital | |
| 8 | 8 | citizenship into the public school curriculum. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by | |
| 11 | 11 | adding Subsection (z) to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (z) The State Board of Education by rule shall require each | |
| 13 | 13 | school district to incorporate instruction in digital citizenship | |
| 14 | 14 | into the district's curriculum. In this subsection, "digital | |
| 15 | 15 | citizenship" means the standards of appropriate, responsible, and | |
| 16 | 16 | healthy online behavior, including the ability to access, analyze, | |
| 17 | 17 | evaluate, create, and act on all forms of digital communication. | |
| 18 | 18 | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | |
| 19 | 19 | school year. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 21 | 21 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 22 | 22 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 23 | 23 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 24 | 24 | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |