By Walker H.B. No. 481
75R1431 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to administration of state-adopted assessment instruments
1-3 to certain public school students.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.023(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The agency shall adopt appropriate criterion-referenced
1-8 assessment instruments designed to assess competencies in reading,
1-9 writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. All nonexempt
1-10 students shall be assessed in:
1-11 (1) reading and mathematics, [annually] in grades
1-12 three, five, and seven [through eight];
1-13 (2) writing, in grades four and eight; and
1-14 (3) social studies and science, at an appropriate
1-15 grade level determined by the State Board of Education.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-17 school year.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.