For GOVT 2306
I want you to select one of the bills below and decribe it as thoroughly as possible.
Follow the link provided and navigate through the site it takes you to. That's all the information you need.
- HB 2 - Relating to public education and public school finance.
- HB 6 - Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.
- HB 20 - Relating to establishing the Applied Sciences Pathway program.
- HB 33 - Relating to active shooter incidents at primary and secondary school facilities and other emergencies.
- HB 42 - Relating to the amount and allocation of the annual constitutional appropriation to certain agencies and institutions of higher education and to the permissible uses of that money.
- SB 2 - Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program.
- SB 4 - Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.
- SB 5 - Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
- SB 10 - Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
- SB 11 - Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.
- SB 12 - Relating to parental rights in public education, to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion duties, and social transitioning, and to student clubs at public schools.
- SB 13 - Relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the establishment of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials.
- SB 24 - Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.
- SB 25 - Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.
- SB 37 - Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman.
Nuts and Bolts:
- The 1000 word requirement is a minimum, not a maximum. You may write as much as you wish.
- Please use at least three references.
- You may use whatever format you wish.
- I don't use rubrics, so you are free to approach this as you wish, nut be professional.
- If you want an A, be excellent.
