Bill Text: TX HB1225 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of certain required assessment instruments in paper format.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-02 - Effective immediately [HB1225 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1225-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1225 | ||
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| relating to the administration of certain required assessment | ||
| instruments in paper format. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.02342 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.02342. PAPER ADMINISTRATION OF ASSESSMENT | ||
| INSTRUMENTS ON REQUEST. (a) Subject to Subsection (c), a school | ||
| district may administer an assessment instrument required under | ||
| Section 39.023(a), (c), or (l) in paper format to any student whose | ||
| parent, guardian, or teacher in the applicable subject area | ||
| requests the assessment instrument be administered to the student | ||
| in paper format. | ||
| (b) A request for the administration of an assessment | ||
| instrument in paper format to a student under this section must be | ||
| submitted to the school district: | ||
| (1) for a fall administration of an assessment | ||
| instrument, not later than September 15 of the school year in which | ||
| the assessment instrument will be administered; and | ||
| (2) for a spring administration of an assessment | ||
| instrument, not later than December 1 of the school year in which | ||
| the assessment instrument will be administered. | ||
| (c) The number of students enrolled at a school district who | ||
| are administered an assessment instrument in paper format for any | ||
| single administration under this section may not exceed three | ||
| percent of the number of students enrolled in the district. On | ||
| receipt of more requests for administration of an assessment | ||
| instrument than the maximum number permitted under this subsection, | ||
| the district shall accept the requests in the order received until | ||
| the maximum number is reached. The limitation described by this | ||
| subsection does not apply to a student whose admission, review, and | ||
| dismissal committee determines that the administration of an | ||
| assessment instrument in paper format is a necessary modification | ||
| for the student. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1225 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1225 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 16, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
