Bill Text: TX HB2140 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the days a state assessment instrument may be administered.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-08 - Referred to Public Education [HB2140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2140-Introduced.html
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By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2140 |
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relating to the days a state assessment instrument may be | ||
administered. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(c-3), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c-3) In adopting a schedule for the administration of | ||
assessment instruments under this section, the State Board of | ||
Education shall require: | ||
(1) assessment instruments administered under | ||
Subsection (a) to be administered on a schedule so that the first | ||
assessment instrument is administered at least two weeks later than | ||
the date on which the first assessment instrument was administered | ||
under Subsection (a) during the 2006-2007 school year; [ |
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(2) the spring administration of end-of-course | ||
assessment instruments under Subsection (c) to occur in each school | ||
district not earlier than the first full week in May, except that | ||
the spring administration of the end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments in English I, English II, and English III must be | ||
permitted to occur at an earlier date; and | ||
(3) assessment instruments administered under this | ||
section to be administered only on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or | ||
Thursday. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c-3), Education Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies beginning with the 2011-2012 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, 2011. |