Amend CSSB 9 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 21.04892 to read as follows:
Sec.21.04892.BILINGUAL TARGET LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST. The board shall propose rules to allow a person who is required to take the Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test to receive a certification under this subchapter who fails to perform satisfactorily on that test to:
(1)retake only the sections of the test that include the domains on which the person failed to perform satisfactorily; and
(2)during a retake of the test described by Subdivision (1), demonstrate the person's language proficiency through the completion of fewer components, including eliminating a component that requires the preparation of a lesson plan for a person who fails to perform satisfactorily on a domain requiring completion of that component.