By Villarreal H.B. No. 1016 77R3729 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to payment by the Texas Education Agency of the costs of 1-3 certain tests administered to public school students who are 1-4 educationally disadvantaged. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 28.027 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 28.027. PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN TESTS. (a) From state 1-9 money appropriated for that purpose, the agency shall pay the costs 1-10 charged to a student who is educationally disadvantaged for 1-11 administering to the student the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment 1-12 Test (PSAT) and the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). 1-13 (b) The agency may not pay the costs under Subsection (a) of 1-14 more than one administration of each test to an educationally 1-15 disadvantaged student. 1-16 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to 1-17 administer this section. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and 1-19 applies only to payment of the costs charged for an administration 1-20 on or after that date of the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) or 1-21 the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT).