Bill Text: TX HB515 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to assessment of public school students and providing accelerated instruction and eliminating performance requirements based on performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 16-7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-27 - Senate appoints conferees-reported [HB515 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB515-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to assessment of public school students and providing accelerated instruction and eliminating performance requirements based on performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 16-7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-27 - Senate appoints conferees-reported [HB515 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB515-Introduced.html
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By: VanDeaver | H.B. No. 515 |
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relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment | ||
instruments and certain end-of-course assessment instruments not | ||
required by federal law. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(a), Education Code, as effective | ||
September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate | ||
criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess | ||
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(a-2), all students, other than students assessed under Subsection | ||
(b) or (l) or exempted under Section 39.027, shall be assessed in: | ||
(1) mathematics, annually in grades three through | ||
seven without the aid of technology and in grade eight with the aid | ||
of technology on any assessment instrument that includes algebra; | ||
(2) reading, annually in grades three through eight; | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments for secondary-level courses in reading, mathematics, | ||
and science only as necessary to comply with the Every Student | ||
Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.) to be administered | ||
only as necessary to meet the minimum requirements of that Act | ||
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district shall comply with State Board of Education rules regarding | ||
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under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, the student's admission, review, | ||
and dismissal committee shall determine whether any allowable | ||
modification is necessary in administering to the student an | ||
assessment instrument required under this subsection. The State | ||
Board of Education shall administer the assessment instruments. | ||
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SECTION 3. Section 39.023(c-3), Education Code, as | ||
effective September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(c-3) The State Board of Education, with input from school | ||
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administration of assessment instruments under this section that | ||
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SECTION 4. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (q) to read as follows: | ||
(q) Notwithstanding any provision of this section or other | ||
law, if changes made to the Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. | ||
Section 6301 et seq.) reduce the number or frequency of assessment | ||
instruments required to be administered to students, the State | ||
Board of Education shall adopt rules reducing the number or | ||
frequency of assessment instruments administered to students under | ||
state law, and the commissioner shall ensure that students are not | ||
assessed in subject areas or in grades that are no longer required | ||
to meet the minimum requirements of that Act. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 39.203(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) In addition to the distinction designations described | ||
by Subsections (a) and (b), a campus that satisfies the criteria | ||
developed under Section 39.204 shall be awarded a distinction | ||
designation by the commissioner for outstanding performance in | ||
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SECTION 6. Section 39.02301, Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 8. 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, 2017. |