Amend CSHB 2238 (Senate committee printing) as follows: (1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 2.107, Education Code (page 5, lines 50 through 61), strike added Subsection (a) and substitute the following: The commissioner of education and commissioner of higher education shall contract with one or more organizations with well-established peer-review processes to develop recommendations, drawing from independently peer-reviewed research that is based on empirical evidence and adheres to the basic principles of sound statistical analysis, for using the system to measure improvement in individual student achievement on assessment instruments. (2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 2.107, Education Code (page 5, line 62, through page 6, line 14), strike added Subsections (b) and (c).