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      Amend CSSB 4 by adding the following SECTION appropriately
numbered and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
accordingly:
      SECTION _____.  Sections 28,006 (a) - (c), Education Code,
are amended to read as follows:
      (a) The commissioner shall develop recommendations for school
districts for:
            (1) administering reading instruments to diagnose
student pre-reading and and reading development and comprehension;
            (2) training educators in administering the reading
instruments; and
            (3) applying the results of the reading instruments to
the instructional program.
      (b) The commissioner shall adopt a list of reading
instruments that a school district may use to diagnose student
pre-reading and reading development and comprehension.  A
district-level committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter
11, may adopt a list of reading instruments for use in the district
in addition to the reading instruments on the commissioner's list.
Each reading instrument adopted by the commissioner or a
district-level committee must be based on scientific research
concerning reading skills development, including phoneme awareness,
sound-letter knowledge, and letter knowledge, and reading
comprehension.  A list of reading instruments adopted under this
subsection must provide for diagnosing the reading development and
comprehension of students participating in a program under
Subchapter B, Chapter 29.