Bill Text: TX HB774 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment instruments administered to public school students in certain grades.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB774 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB774-Introduced.html
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By: González | H.B. No. 774 |
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relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment | ||
instruments administered to public school students in certain | ||
grades. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(a), Education Code, as effective | ||
until on or before September 1, 2015, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate | ||
criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess | ||
essential knowledge and skills in reading, [ |
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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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federal law. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.023(a), Education Code, as effective | ||
on or before September 1, 2015, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The agency shall adopt or develop appropriate | ||
criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess | ||
essential knowledge and skills in reading, [ |
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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, in grades three and five without the | ||
aid of technology and in grade eight with the aid of technology on | ||
any assessment instrument that includes algebra; | ||
(2) reading, in grades three, five, and eight; and | ||
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SECTION 3. 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 | ||
essential knowledge and skills in reading, [ |
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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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federal law. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2015. |