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.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     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.
 
 
  ______________________________
  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.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor