By Alexander H.B. No. 2583 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to assessment of student performance in public schools. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 13.302(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt an appraisal 1-7 process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of 1-8 teachers. The criteria must be based on observable, job-related 1-9 behavior, including teachers' implementation of discipline 1-10 management procedures. The criteria may not be based on the 1-11 performance of a teacher's students on the assessment instruments 1-12 required by Sections 35.023(a) and (b). 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 13.303(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-14 read as follows: 1-15 (a) In appraising teachers, each school district shall use: 1-16 (1) the appraisal process and performance criteria 1-17 that: 1-18 (A) are developed by the school district 1-19 utilizing the procedures established in Sections 21.930 and 21.931; 1-20 (B) do not include reliance on the performance 1-21 of a teacher's students on the assessment instruments required by 1-22 Sections 35.023(a) and (b); and 1-23 (C) are approved by the commissioner of 2-1 education. 2-2 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 2-3 school year. 2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.