| 1 | | - | By: Gates (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 4525 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 2021; |
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| 3 | | - | May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | | - | Education; May 24, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 7, Nays 2; May 24, 2021, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | 87R22423 BDP-F |
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| 2 | + | By: Gates H.B. No. 4525 |
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| 9 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 7 | | relating to the approval of career and technology courses by the |
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| 12 | 8 | | State Board of Education. |
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| 13 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 28.002(o), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 15 | 11 | | read as follows: |
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| 16 | 12 | | (o) In approving career and technology courses, the State |
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| 17 | 13 | | Board of Education must: |
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| 18 | 14 | | (1) determine that at least 50 percent of the approved |
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| 19 | 15 | | courses are cost-effective for a school district to implement; and |
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| 20 | 16 | | (2) in scheduling or initiating a course review to |
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| 21 | 17 | | provide updated and relevant course offerings, consider relevant |
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| 22 | 18 | | economic and market conditions affecting the workforce of this |
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| 23 | 19 | | state. |
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| 24 | 20 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 |
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| 25 | 21 | | school year. |
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| 26 | 22 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 23 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 24 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 25 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 26 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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