Floor Packet Page No. 106
Amend CSHB 2 as follows:
(1) On page 153, line 23, strike "Subsections (a-1) and
(b-1)" and substitute "Subsections (a-1), (b-1), and (e-1)".
(2) Strike the text on page 157 lines 25-27, through page
158 lines 1-9 and substitute the following:
(e) Under rules adopted by the State Board of Education:
(1) the agency shall release to each school district
questions and answer keys to each assessment instrument
administered under Subsections (a), (b), (c), and (l) and Section
39.027 not later than the 30th day after the date results are
released for that year under Subsection (h) or another law or rule,
as applicable; and
(2) [,] every other year, the agency shall release the
questions and answer keys to each assessment instrument
administered under Subsection [(a), (b), (c),] (d)[, or (l)] after
the last time the instrument is administered for that school year.
(e-1) To ensure a valid bank of questions for use in
assessment instruments administered under Subsection (a), (b),
(c), (d), or (l) or Section 39.027 each year, the agency is not
required under Subsection (e) to release a question that is being
field-tested and was not used to compute the student's score on the
instrument. The agency, under board rule, shall [also] release,
after the last time an assessment instrument is administered for
that school year[, under board rule], each question that is no
longer being field-tested and that was not used to compute a
student's score.