Bill Text: TX HB1244 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment instrument administered to public high school students and reporting requirements for that assessment instrument.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1244 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1244-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1244 |
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relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment | ||
instrument administered to public high school students and | ||
reporting requirements for that assessment instrument. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c-7) to read as follows: | ||
(c-7) The United States history end-of-course assessment | ||
instrument adopted under Subsection (c) must include 10 questions | ||
randomly selected by the agency from the civics test administered | ||
by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as part | ||
of the naturalization process under the federal Immigration and | ||
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). The agency shall: | ||
(1) ensure that the questions included in the | ||
assessment instrument align with the essential knowledge and skills | ||
adopted for the United States history course for which the | ||
instrument is administered; and | ||
(2) annually issue a report: | ||
(A) providing the questions included in the | ||
assessment instrument under this subsection and the answers to | ||
those questions; and | ||
(B) detailing student performance on the | ||
questions included in the assessment instrument under this | ||
subsection, both statewide and disaggregated by school district and | ||
campus. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c-7), Education Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with students who enter the ninth grade | ||
during 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1244 was passed by the House on March | ||
20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1244 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1244 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |