By Maxey H.B. No. 582
75R3930 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to state-adopted prereading and reading assessment
1-3 instruments administered to 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) prereading, in kindergarten;
1-12 (2) reading [and mathematics], annually in grades one
1-13 [three] through eight;
1-14 (3) mathematics, annually in grades three through
1-15 eight;
1-16 (4) [(2)] writing, in grades four and eight; and
1-17 (5) [(3)] social studies and science, at an
1-18 appropriate grade level determined by the State Board of Education.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-20 school year.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.