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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 83(R)

Senate Bill 377

Senate Author:  Lucio et al.

Effective:  9-1-13

House Sponsor:  Gonzalez, Mary et al.


            Senate Bill 377 amends the Education Code to prohibit a student from being considered to be enrolled in a school in the United States for a year for the purpose of determining the number of years after a student's initial enrollment in a school in the United States during which the student may be administered an accommodated or alternative test or granted an exemption from or a postponement of the administration of a test based on the student's status as a student of limited English proficiency, as a recent unschooled immigrant, or as an unschooled asylee or refugee, or on the student's enrollment in a grade for which there is no test in the student's primary language unless the student is enrolled in a school in the United States for a period of at least 60 consecutive days during that year.