Bill Text: TX HB3010 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the schedule for administration of state-administered assessment instruments in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-17 - Referred to Public Education [HB3010 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB3010-Introduced.html
  82R10740 GCB-D
 
  By: Bonnen H.B. No. 3010
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the schedule for administration of state-administered
  assessment instruments in public schools.
         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; [and]
               (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)  the administration of assessment instruments
  under Subsection (a) and end-of-course assessment instruments
  under Subsection (c), including any administration of an assessment
  instrument for students who did not participate in the regular
  administration or who failed to perform satisfactorily on the
  assessment instrument, to occur only on a weekday.
         SECTION 2.  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.
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