By Farabee H.B. No. 1113
76R4883 BDH-D
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.