By Luna H.B. No. 370 76R2124 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the determination of academic achievement or 1-3 proficiency as the basis for being promoted in public school. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 28.021, Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 28.021. STUDENT ADVANCEMENT. (a) A student may be 1-8 promoted only on the basis of academic achievement or demonstrated 1-9 proficiency of the subject matter of the course or grade level. 1-10 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a student must 1-11 achieve a grade equal to or greater than the equivalent of 70 on a 1-12 scale of 100 in a course to demonstrate academic achievement or 1-13 proficiency for purposes of this section. 1-14 (c) In measuring the academic achievement or proficiency of 1-15 a student who is dyslexic, the student's potential for achievement 1-16 or proficiency in the area must be considered. 1-17 (d) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement 1-18 this section. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 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.