Amend CSHB 3 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 20, line 17, between "Subsections" and "(c-4)" insert "(b),".
(2) On page 20, between lines 26 and 27, insert the
following:
(b) The agency shall develop or adopt appropriate
criterion-referenced alternative assessment instruments to be
administered to each student in a special education program under
Subchapter A, Chapter 29, [who receives modified instruction in the
essential knowledge and skills identified under Section 28.002 for
the assessed subject but] for whom an assessment instrument adopted
under Subsection (a), even with allowable accommodations
[modifications], would not provide an appropriate measure of
student achievement, as determined by the student's admission,
review, and dismissal committee. [The assessment instruments
required under this subsection must assess essential knowledge and
skills and growth in the subjects of reading, mathematics, and
writing. A student's admission, review, and dismissal committee
shall determine whether any allowable modification is necessary in
administering to the student an assessment instrument required
under this subsection. The assessment instruments required under
this subsection shall be administered on the same schedule as the
assessment instruments administered under Subsection (a).]