By Farabee                                            H.B. No. 1113
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to limits on the use of assessment instruments in public
 1-3     schools.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 39.032(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A company or organization may not distribute to, sell
 1-8     to, or grade for the same school district the same form of an
 1-9     assessment instrument for more than six [three] school years.  A
1-10     school district may not use the same form of an assessment
1-11     instrument for more than six [three] years.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-13     school year.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.