Bill Text: TX HB3328 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment instruments and certain end-of-course assessment instruments not required by federal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Public Education [HB3328 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3328-Introduced.html
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By: Herrero | H.B. No. 3328 |
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relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment | ||
instruments and certain end-of-course assessment instruments not | ||
required by federal law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (c), (c-2), and (c-3) and adding | ||
Subsection (q) to read as follows: | ||
(a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate | ||
criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess | ||
essential knowledge and skills in reading, [ |
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(a-2), all students, other than students assessed under Subsection | ||
(b) or (l) or exempted under Section 39.027, shall be assessed in: | ||
(1) mathematics, annually in grades three through | ||
seven without the aid of technology and in grade eight with the aid | ||
of technology on any assessment instrument that includes algebra; | ||
(2) reading, annually in grades three through eight; | ||
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federal law. | ||
(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments for secondary-level courses in reading, mathematics, | ||
and science only as necessary to comply with the Every Student | ||
Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.) to be administered | ||
only as necessary to meet the minimum requirements of that Act | ||
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district shall comply with State Board of Education rules regarding | ||
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under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, the student's admission, review, | ||
and dismissal committee shall determine whether any allowable | ||
modification is necessary in administering to the student an | ||
assessment instrument required under this subsection. The State | ||
Board of Education shall administer the assessment instruments. | ||
The State Board of Education shall adopt a schedule for the | ||
administration of end-of-course assessment instruments that | ||
complies with the requirements of Subsection (c-3). | ||
(c-2) The agency may adopt end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments for courses for which end-of-course assessment | ||
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(c). A student's performance on an end-of-course assessment | ||
instrument adopted under this subsection is not subject to the | ||
performance requirements established under Subsection (c) or | ||
Section 39.025. | ||
(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 | ||
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be permitted to occur at an earlier date. | ||
(q) Notwithstanding any provision of this section or other | ||
law, if changes made to the Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. | ||
Section 6301 et seq.) reduce the number or frequency of assessment | ||
instruments required to be administered to students, the State | ||
Board of Education shall adopt rules reducing the number or | ||
frequency of assessment instruments administered to students under | ||
state law, and the commissioner shall ensure that students are not | ||
assessed in subject areas or in grades that are no longer required | ||
to meet the minimum requirements of that Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.025(a-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A student enrolled in a college preparatory | ||
mathematics or English language arts course under Section 28.014 | ||
who satisfies the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) college readiness | ||
benchmarks prescribed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board under Section 51.334 on an assessment instrument designated | ||
by the coordinating board under that section administered at the | ||
end of the college preparatory mathematics or English language arts | ||
course satisfies the requirements concerning and is exempt from the | ||
administration of the mathematics or reading [ |
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perform satisfactorily on a previous administration of the | ||
applicable end-of-course assessment instrument. A student who | ||
fails to perform satisfactorily on the assessment instrument | ||
designated by the coordinating board under Section 51.334 | ||
administered as provided by this subsection may retake that | ||
assessment instrument for purposes of this subsection or may take | ||
the appropriate end-of-course assessment instrument. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 39.203(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) In addition to the distinction designations described | ||
by Subsections (a) and (b), a campus that satisfies the criteria | ||
developed under Section 39.204 shall be awarded a distinction | ||
designation by the commissioner for outstanding performance in | ||
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SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. 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. |