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Amend CSHB 2836 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in the recital (page 1, line 27), strike "and (a-5)" and substitute "(a-5), (b-1), and (b-2)".
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Section 39.023, Education Code (page 1, between lines 40 and 41), insert the following:
(b-1) The agency, in conjunction with appropriate interested persons, shall redevelop assessment instruments adopted or developed under Subsection (b) for administration to significantly cognitively disabled students in a manner consistent with federal law. An assessment instrument under this subsection may not require a teacher to prepare tasks or materials for a student who will be administered such an assessment instrument.
(b-2) Assessment instruments redeveloped under Subsection (b-1) shall be administered beginning not later than the 2014-2015 school year. This subsection expires September 1, 2015.