Amend CSHB 2162 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 1, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. This Act may be cited as the Texas Literacy Act.
(2) On page 1, strike lines 18 and 19, and substitute the following:
(A) ensure the results of the reading instruments are valid, reliable, and equated;
(3) On page 1, lines 12 and 13, strike "and (g-6)" and substitute "(g-6), and (n)".
(4) On page 7, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following subsection:
(n) The agency may not use data collected from a reading instrument administered under this section in evaluating the performance of a school district or campus under Section 39.054.
(5) Strike page 7, line 26 through page 8, line 22 and substitute the following:
Sec. 28.0063. SUPPLEMENTAL READING INSTRUCTION FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS. (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall make available supplemental instruction described by Section 28.0211(a-4) to address a student's reading deficiency if the student's results on both of the reading assessments administered under Section 28.006 in two consecutive school years indicate the student needs reading intervention.
(b) A parent or guardian of a student described by Subsection (a) may select a tutor from a list of high-quality tutors approved by the agency or by the school district or open-enrollment charter school the student attends to provide the supplemental instruction required under Subsection (a). The district or school shall contract directly with the tutor selected, who may be a classroom teacher employed at the district or school. A classroom teacher selected as a student's tutor is entitled to supplemental pay from the district or school. The district or school may not provide money under this subsection directly to a parent or guardian of a student.
(c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall submit to the agency the district's or school's list of high-quality tutors and publish the list on the district's or school's Internet website.
(d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school that provides a tutor to a student under this section shall continue to provide the student any other reading support required of the district or school by federal or state law.