Bill Text: TX HB353 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to state assessment of certain public school students determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB353 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB353-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 353 | |
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| relating to state assessment of certain public school students | ||
| determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.023(n), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (n) This subsection applies only to a student who is | ||
| determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder and who is an | ||
| individual with a disability under 29 U.S.C. Section 705(20) and | ||
| its subsequent amendments. The agency shall adopt or develop | ||
| appropriate criterion-referenced and end-of-course assessment | ||
| instruments designed to assess the ability of and to be | ||
| administered to each student to whom this subsection applies for | ||
| whom the assessment instruments adopted or developed under | ||
| Subsection (a) or (c), as applicable, even with allowable | ||
| modifications, would not provide an appropriate measure of student | ||
| achievement, as determined by the committee established by the | ||
| board of trustees of the district to determine the placement of | ||
| students with dyslexia or related disorders. The committee shall | ||
| determine whether any allowable modification is necessary in | ||
| administering to a student an assessment instrument required under | ||
| this subsection. The assessment instruments required under this | ||
| subsection shall be administered on the same schedule as the | ||
| assessment instruments administered under Subsection (a) or (c), as | ||
| applicable. A student to whom this subsection applies for whom, as | ||
| determined in accordance with this subsection, the assessment | ||
| instruments adopted or developed under Subsection (a) or (c), as | ||
| applicable, even with allowable modifications, would not provide an | ||
| appropriate measure of student achievement may be granted an | ||
| exemption from the administration of those assessment instruments | ||
| until appropriate criterion-referenced or end-of-course assessment | ||
| instruments, as applicable, have been adopted or developed as | ||
| required under this subsection and thoroughly field tested. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
