Amend CSSB 103 as follows:
      (1)  In SECTION 3 of the bill, in Section 39.022, Education
Code (House Committee Printing, page 2, line 14), strike "primarily
performance-based" and substitute "knowledge- and skills-based
<primarily performance based>".
      (2)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in the introductory language
(House Committee Printing, page 2, line 20), strike "(a), (c)" and
substitute "(a)-(c)".
      (3)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in Subsection (a), Section
39.023, Education Code (House Committee Printing, page 2, line 23),
strike "competencies" and substitute "essential knowledge and
skills <competencies>".
      (4)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, strike proposed Subdivisions
(1), (2), and (3), Subsection (a), Section 39.023, Education Code
(House Committee Printing, page 2, line 27, through page 3, lines
1-3), and substitute the following:
            (1)  mathematics ability, annually in grades three
through seven without the aid of technology and in grades eight
through eleven with the aid of technology on any assessment
instruments that include algebra;
            (2)  reading ability <and mathematics>, annually in
grades three through nine <eight>;
            (3) <(2)>  writing, including spelling and grammar, in
grades four and seven <eight>;
      (5)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, between Subsections (a) and
(c), Section 39.023, Education Code (House Committee Printing, page
3, between lines 7 and 8), insert the following:
      (b)  The agency shall develop or adopt appropriate
criterion-referenced assessment instruments to be administered to
each student in a special education program under Subchapter A,
Chapter 29, who receives instruction in the essential knowledge and
skills identified under Section 28.002 but for whom the assessment
instruments adopted under Subsection (a), even with allowable
modifications, would not provide an appropriate measure of student
achievement, as determined by the student's admission, review, and
dismissal committee.  The assessment instruments required under
this subsection must assess essential knowledge and skills
<competencies> and growth in reading, mathematics, and writing.  A
student's admission, review, and dismissal committee shall
determine whether any allowable modification is necessary in
administering to the student an assessment instrument required
under this subsection.  The assessment instruments required under
this subsection shall be administered on the same schedule as the
assessment instruments administered under Subsection (a).
      (6)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in Subsection (c), Section
39.023, Education Code (House Committee Printing, page 3, line 10),
strike "competencies" and substitute "essential knowledge and
skills <competencies>".
      (7)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in Subsection (c), Section
39.023, Education Code (House committee printing, page 3, line 12),
between "geometry" and the period, insert "with the aid of
technology".
      (8)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, in Subsection (c), Section
39.023, Education Code (House Committee Printing, page 3, line 14),
strike "writing competencies" and substitute "essential knowledge
and skills in writing <competencies>".
      (9)  Between SECTION 18 and SECTION 19 of the bill (House
Committee Printing, page 13, between lines 19 and 20), insert the
following SECTION and renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
accordingly:
      SECTION 19.  The portion of Subdivision (1), Subsection (a),
Section 39.023, Education Code, as amended by this Act, that
requires assessment of mathematics computation skills without the
aid of technology applies beginning with the 2004-2005 school year.