Floor Packet Page No. 213 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.