By Hochberg H.B. No. 3413 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain academic excellence indicators. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 39.051, Public Education Code, is amended 1-5 to read as follows: 1-6 (b) Performance on the indicators adopted under this section 1-7 shall be compared to state-established standards. The degree of 1-8 change from one school year to the next in performance on each 1-9 indicator adopted under this section shall also be considered. The 1-10 indicators must be based on information that is disaggregated with 1-11 respect to race, ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status and must 1-12 include: 1-13 (1) the results of assessment instruments required 1-14 under Subchapter B aggregated by grade level and subject area, 1-15 including passing rates and, for students who failed an assessment 1-16 instrument in the previous school year, progress toward passing 1-17 since the previous year; 1-18 (2) dropout rates; 1-19 (3) student attendance rates; 1-20 (4) the percentage of graduating students who attain 1-21 scores on the secondary exit-level assessment instruments required 1-22 under Subchapter B that are equivalent to a passing score on the 2-1 test instrument required under Section 51.306; 2-2 (5) the percentage of graduating students who meet the 2-3 course requirements established for the recommended high school 2-4 program by State Board of Education rule; 2-5 (6) the results of the Scholastic Assessment Test 2-6 (SAT) and the American College Test; 2-7 (7) the percentage of students taking end-of-course 2-8 assessment instruments adopted under Section 39.023(c); 2-9 (8) the percentage of students exempted, by exemption 2-10 category, from the assessment program generally applicable under 2-11 this subchapter; and 2-12 (9) any other indicator the State Board of Education 2-13 adopts. 2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.