Amend CSHB 3 (senate committee report as follows:

SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 39A, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 39A.907 to read as follows:

Sec. 39A.907.  ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT STUDY

(a)  The commissioner shall contract for a study to determine whether, for each applicable grade level, each assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(a) during the 2018-2019 school year or scheduled to be administered during the 2019-2020 school year is written at the appropriate reading level for students in that grade level and includes only passages written at a reading level not higher than the grade level at which the assessment instrument is administered.

(b)  In contracting for the study, the commissioner shall:

(1)  use a competitive process to select an independent entity to conduct the study that is not an entity that develops or otherwise reviews assessment instruments under Chapter 39.

(c)  Not later than December 1, 2019, the commissioner shall:

(1)  submit a report to the legislature and the presiding officer of each legislative standing committee with jurisdiction over primary and secondary education that includes the results of the study.