By Alonzo                                             H.B. No. 1995
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the administration of criterion referenced assessment
    1-3  instruments.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 21, Subchapter O is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 21.5516 to read as follows:
    1-7        Section 21.5516.  Criterion referenced assessment instruments
    1-8  as defined under this chapter may only be administered before April
    1-9  25 or after May 6 of the academic school year.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.