By King of Uvalde H.B. No. 3405
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the schedule of assessment instruments administered to
1-3 students in special education programs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) The agency shall develop or adopt appropriate
1-8 criterion-referenced assessment instruments to be administered to
1-9 each student in a special education program under Subchapter A,
1-10 Chapter 29, who receives instruction in the essential knowledge and
1-11 skills identified under Section 28.002 but for whom the assessment
1-12 instruments adopted under Subsection (a), even with allowable
1-13 modifications, would not provide an appropriate measure of student
1-14 achievement, as determined by the student's admission, review, and
1-15 dismissal committee. The assessment instruments required under
1-16 this subsection must assess essential knowledge and skills and
1-17 growth in reading, mathematics, and writing. A student's
1-18 admission, review, and dismissal committee shall determine whether
1-19 any allowable modification is necessary in administering to the
1-20 student an assessment instrument required under this subsection.
1-21 The assessment instruments required under this subsection shall be
1-22 administered on [the same] a schedule established by the
1-23 commissioner as close as practicable to that for the assessment
2-1 instruments administered under Subsection (a).
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-3 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-4 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-5 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-6 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.