Bill Text: TX SB906 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to developmentally appropriate assessment of special education students.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB906 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB906-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 906 | ||
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| relating to developmentally appropriate assessment of special | ||
| education students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 39.023, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The agency shall develop or adopt appropriate | ||
| criterion-referenced alternative assessment instruments to be | ||
| administered to each student in a special education program under | ||
| Subchapter A, Chapter 29, for whom an assessment instrument adopted | ||
| under Subsection (a), even with allowable accommodations, would not | ||
| provide an appropriate measure of student achievement, as | ||
| determined by the student's admission, review, and dismissal | ||
| committee. The agency may not adopt a performance standard that | ||
| indicates that a student's performance on the alternate assessment | ||
| does not meet standards if the lowest level of the assessment | ||
| accurately represents the student's developmental level as | ||
| determined by the student's admission, review, and dismissal | ||
| committee. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, but not later than October 1, 2013, the Texas Education | ||
| Agency shall adopt and implement rules consistent with Subsection | ||
| (b), Section 39.023, Education Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 906 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 906 passed the House on | ||
| May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
