Amend HB 2836 by striking page 1, line 6, through page 3, line 8, and substituting the following:

SECTION 1.  Section 39.023(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The agency shall adopt an assessment instrument described under this subsection [or develop appropriate criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed] to assess essential knowledge and skills in reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. All [Except as provided by Subsection (a-2), all] students, other than students assessed under Subsection (b) or (l) or exempted under Section 39.027, shall be assessed annually in grades three through eight using that assessment instrument[:

[(1)     mathematics, annually in grades three through seven without the aid of technology and in grade eight with the aid of technology on any assessment instrument that includes algebra;

[(2)     reading, annually in grades three through eight;

[(3)     writing, including spelling and grammar, in grades four and seven;

[(4)     social studies, in grade eight;

[(5)     science, in grades five and eight;] and in

[(6)]  any other subject and grade as required by federal law. The agency may adopt one of the following assessment instruments as required under this subsection:

SECTION 2.  Sections 39.023(a-1) and (a-2), Education Code are repealed.