Bill Text: TX HB3304 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency on the administration of assessment instruments in Spanish to certain public school students in grades six through eight.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to Public Education [HB3304 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3304-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3304 | |
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| relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency on the | ||
| administration of assessment instruments in Spanish to certain | ||
| public school students in grades six through eight. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.02303 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.02303. STUDY ON ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN | ||
| ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS IN SPANISH. (a) In this section, "emergent | ||
| bilingual student" has the meaning assigned by Section 29.052. | ||
| (b) The agency shall conduct a study regarding the | ||
| feasibility of administering assessment instruments adopted under | ||
| Section 39.023 and administered to students in grades six through | ||
| eight in Spanish for emergent bilingual students whose primary | ||
| language is Spanish. | ||
| (c) The study must: | ||
| (1) examine the extent to which not administering | ||
| assessment instruments adopted under Section 39.023 in Spanish to | ||
| emergent bilingual students in grades six through eight whose | ||
| primary language is Spanish limits the implementation of dual | ||
| language immersion/one-way and two-way program models in secondary | ||
| schools; | ||
| (2) include research regarding how to administer an | ||
| assessment instrument described by Subdivision (1) in a manner that | ||
| allows, to the extent practicable, the score an emergent bilingual | ||
| student receives on the assessment instrument to be statistically | ||
| useful for comparison, considering the limited number of emergent | ||
| bilingual students, to performance by students administered the | ||
| same instrument in English; and | ||
| (3) identify and develop a list of nationally | ||
| recognized norm-referenced assessment instruments available for | ||
| administration in Spanish to students enrolled in dual language | ||
| immersion/one-way and two-way programs. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1, 2024, the agency shall | ||
| prepare and submit to the legislature a report on the results of the | ||
| study and any recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2023. | ||
