Bill Text: TX SB1203 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and use of performance standards for certain secondary-level alternate assessment instruments administered to public school students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Education [SB1203 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1203-Introduced.html
  86R2575 MM-D
 
  By: Miles S.B. No. 1203
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment and use of performance standards for
  certain secondary-level alternate assessment instruments
  administered to public school students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 39.0241, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows:
         (a-2)  This subsection applies only to an assessment
  instrument authorized under Section 39.025(a-1) or Section
  39.025(a-2), as added by Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, for use as an alternate
  assessment instrument for purposes of satisfying the requirements
  concerning an end-of-course assessment instrument.  The
  commissioner shall designate performance standards for student
  performance on each assessment instrument subject to this
  subsection in the same manner as the commissioner designates
  performance standards for student performance on each
  end-of-course assessment instrument listed in Section 39.023(c).
         SECTION 2.  Section 39.053, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c-4) to read as follows:
         (c-4)  The commissioner by rule shall determine a method for
  appropriately crediting a student for growth under Subsection
  (c)(2) based on the student's performance, as determined under the
  performance standards designated under Section 39.0241(a-2), on an
  alternate assessment instrument. 
         SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 4.  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.
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