Amend CSHB 2162 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 1, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. This Act may be cited as the Texas Literacy Act.
(2) On page 1, strike lines 18 and 19, and substitute the following:
(A)ensure the results of the reading instruments are valid, reliable, and equated;
(3) On page 1, lines 12 and 13, strike "and (g-6)" and substitute "(g-6), and (n)".
(4) On page 7, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following subsection:
(n)The agency may not use data collected from a reading instrument administered under this section in evaluating the performance of a school district or campus under Section 39.054.
(5) Strike page 7, line 26 through page 8, line 22 and substitute the following:
Sec.28.0063.SUPPLEMENTAL READING INSTRUCTION FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS. (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall make available supplemental instruction described by Section 28.0211(a-4) to address a student's reading deficiency if the student's results on both of the reading assessments administered under Section 28.006 in two consecutive school years indicate the student needs reading intervention.
(b)A parent or guardian of a student described by Subsection (a) may select a tutor from a list of high-quality tutors approved by the agency or by the school district or open-enrollment charter school the student attends to provide the supplemental instruction required under Subsection (a). The district or school shall contract directly with the tutor selected, who may be a classroom teacher employed at the district or school. A classroom teacher selected as a student's tutor is entitled to supplemental pay from the district or school. The district or school may not provide money under this subsection directly to a parent or guardian of a student.
(c)A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall submit to the agency the district's or school's list of high-quality tutors and publish the list on the district's or school's Internet website.
(d)A school district or open-enrollment charter school that provides a tutor to a student under this section shall continue to provide the student any other reading support required of the district or school by federal or state law.