78R3056 KKA-F
By: Grusendorf H.B. No. 495
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the administration by school districts of college
preparation achievement assessment instruments to certain
students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.0261 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.0261. COLLEGE PREPARATION ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENTS.
(a) In addition to the assessment instruments otherwise authorized
or required by this subchapter, a school district shall administer
to students in grades 8, 10, and 12 an established, valid, and
reliable system of nationally normed and curriculum-based
educational planning and achievement assessment instruments with
the following characteristics:
(1) an integrated series of standards and
curriculum-based achievement assessment instruments, with the
grade 12 assessment instrument currently accepted by this state's
colleges and universities for use in determining admissions; and
(2) a common content continuum and score scale in the
assessed areas of reading, English, mathematics, and science across
the assessment instruments administered at each grade level.
(b) The agency shall:
(1) select and approve vendors of the specific
assessment instruments administered under this section; and
(2) pay from its operating budget all costs associated
with administration of the assessment instruments.
(c) The agency shall compile the results of any assessment
instrument administered under this section and make the results
available through the Public Education Information Management
System (PEIMS).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect June 1, 2005, and applies
beginning with the 2005-2006 school year.