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Floor Packet Page No. 262                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 2 as follows:                                                     

(1)  On page 83, strike lines 3 through 8 and substitute the 	following:      
		[(1)]  the student:                                   
		(1)  successfully completes the curriculum 
requirements identified by the State Board of Education under 
Subsection (a) [and complies with Section 39.025(a)]; [or]
		(2)  meets the alternative graduation criteria 
prescribed by Section 28.0252; or
		(3)  [the student] successfully completes an 
individualized education program developed under Section 29.005.
	(2)  On page 83, line 10, between "39.025" and ".", insert 
"or the alternative graduation criteria under Section 28.0252".
	(3)  On page 83, line 15, after "39.025", insert "or the 
alternative graduation criteria under Section 28.0252".
	(4)  On page 84, between lines 6 and 7, add the following 
appropriately numbered section to Part D, Article 2, of the bill, 
and renumber the subsequent sections accordingly:
	SECTION 2D.__.  Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 28.0252 to read as follows:
	Sec. 28.0252.  ALTERNATIVE GRADUATION CRITERIA.  (a)  The 
commissioner by rule shall prescribe alternative graduation 
criteria that a student may meet to graduate and receive a diploma 
without complying with Section 28.025(c)(1).  The alternative 
graduation criteria must compensate for unsatisfactory performance 
on an assessment instrument required under Section 28.0215.  The 
alternative graduation criteria must include a student's:
		(1)  grade point average beginning in grade 9;                         
		(2)  current class ranking;                                            
		(3)  performance on the assessment instruments 
required under Section 28.0215, including a consideration of 
whether extenuating circumstances may have adversely affected the 
student's performance; and
		(4)  overall academic performance beginning in grade 9, 
as evaluated by two or more of the student's teachers.
	(b)  A committee composed of the student's high school 
principal or the principal's designee and two certified teachers in 
the student's school district who teach at the high school level 
shall determine whether a student who has not complied with Section 
28.025(c)(1) has met the alternative graduation criteria 
prescribed under Subsection (a).  The commissioner shall adopt 
rules relating to the selection and operation of a committee under 
this subsection.
	(c)  A committee established under Subsection (b) shall 
determine whether a student who has not complied with Section 
28.025(c)(1) has met the alternative graduation criteria 
prescribed under Subsection (a):
		(1)  following the administration to the student of the 
assessment instruments required under Section 28.0215;
		(2)  on written request of the student's parent or 
guardian, not more than one time in each school year following the 
school year in which assessment instruments required under Section 
28.0215 are administered to the student; and
		(3)  when the principal of the student's high school, or 
the principal's designee, determines that the student is within one 
month of completing each requirement for a high school diploma 
other than compliance with Section 28.025(c)(1).
	(d)  Until the commissioner certifies that the 
implementation of amendments made by HB 2, Acts of the 79th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, to Sections 39.023(a) and (c) 
and 39.051(b) is complete under the transition plan adopted under 
Section 39.0241, any reference in this section to an assessment 
instrument required under Section 28.0215 includes a secondary 
exit-level assessment instrument administered as provided by 
Section 39.0241(a).  This subsection expires September 1, 2011.