By: Shelley S.B. No. 1468 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to performance of students on the secondary exit level 1-2 assessment instrument and the issuance of diplomas. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter O, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.5531 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.5531. NOTATION OF PASSING EXIT LEVEL INSTRUMENT; 1-7 ISSUANCE OF DIPLOMAS TO OTHER STUDENTS. (a) The diploma of a 1-8 student who has performed satisfactorily on all sections of the 1-9 secondary exit level assessment instrument must contain a 1-10 statement, or have a statement affixed, that the student has 1-11 performed satisfactorily on that instrument. 1-12 (b) Notwithstanding Section 21.553 of this code, a school 1-13 district shall issue a high school diploma to a student who has 1-14 completed all requirements for graduation but has not performed 1-15 satisfactorily on all sections of the secondary exit level 1-16 assessment instrument. The diploma of such a student may not 1-17 contain or have affixed the statement described by Subsection (a) 1-18 of this section. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.