Bill Text: TX HB58 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating certain state-required end-of-course assessment instruments not required by federal law and eliminating graduation requirements based on satisfactory performance on certain end-of-course assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-06 - Filed [HB58 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB58-Introduced.html
By: Bucy | H.B. No. 58 |
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relating to eliminating certain state-required end-of-course | ||
assessment instruments not required by federal law and eliminating | ||
graduation requirements based on satisfactory performance on | ||
certain end-of-course assessment instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (q) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments for secondary-level courses in Algebra I, biology, and | ||
English I[ |
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end-of-course assessment instrument must be administered with the | ||
aid of technology, but may include one or more parts that prohibit | ||
the use of technology. The English I [ |
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assessment instrument [ |
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knowledge and skills in both reading and writing and must provide a | ||
single score. A school district shall comply with State Board of | ||
Education rules regarding administration of the assessment | ||
instruments listed in this subsection. If a student is in a special | ||
education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, the student's | ||
admission, review, and dismissal committee shall determine whether | ||
any allowable modification is necessary in administering to the | ||
student an assessment instrument required under this subsection. | ||
The State Board of Education shall administer the assessment | ||
instruments. An end-of-course assessment instrument may be | ||
administered in multiple parts over more than one day. The State | ||
Board of Education shall adopt a schedule for the administration of | ||
end-of-course assessment instruments that complies with the | ||
requirements of Subsection (c-3). | ||
(q) This subsection applies to end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments adopted under Subsection (c) for secondary-level | ||
courses in English II and United States history, as that subsection | ||
existed before amendment by __.B. No.___, Acts of the 88th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2023. The agency may retain | ||
assessment instruments described by this subsection, but may not | ||
require a school district to administer those assessment | ||
instruments. A school district may choose to administer an | ||
assessment instrument described by this subsection. An assessment | ||
instrument described by this subsection administered by a school | ||
district may not be used for accountability purposes to measure the | ||
performance of the district or a district campus. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a-1) and (a-3) and adding Subsections (h), | ||
(i), and (j) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A student enrolled in a college preparatory | ||
mathematics or English language arts course under Section 28.014 | ||
who satisfies the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) college readiness | ||
benchmarks prescribed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board under Section 51.334 on an assessment instrument designated | ||
by the coordinating board under that section administered at the | ||
end of the college preparatory mathematics or English language arts | ||
course satisfies the requirements concerning and is exempt from the | ||
administration of the Algebra I or the English I [ |
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end-of-course assessment instrument [ |
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as prescribed by Section 39.023(c), even if the student did not | ||
perform satisfactorily on a previous administration of the | ||
applicable end-of-course assessment instrument. A student who | ||
fails to perform satisfactorily on the assessment instrument | ||
designated by the coordinating board under Section 51.334 | ||
administered as provided by this subsection may retake that | ||
assessment instrument for purposes of this subsection or may take | ||
the appropriate end-of-course assessment instrument. | ||
(a-3) A student who, after retaking an end-of-course | ||
assessment instrument for Algebra I [ |
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perform satisfactorily as required by Subsection (a)[ |
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receives a score of proficient on the Texas Success Initiative | ||
(TSI) diagnostic assessment for mathematics [ |
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concerning the Algebra I [ |
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(h) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), in order to receive a | ||
high school diploma, a student is not required to achieve a scale | ||
score that indicates satisfactory performance on an end-of-course | ||
assessment for secondary-level courses in English II or United | ||
States history after the effective date of __.B. No.___, Acts of the | ||
88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, regardless of the date the | ||
student enters high school. | ||
(i) Subject to Subsection (j), a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school policy that requires a student to | ||
demonstrate satisfactory performance on an end-of-course | ||
assessment for secondary-level courses in English II or United | ||
States history does not apply to a student of the district or school | ||
as of the effective date of __.B. No.___, Acts of the 88th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, regardless of the date that | ||
student enters high school or whether the student is currently | ||
enrolled in high school. | ||
(j) The board of trustees of a school district or the | ||
governing body of an open-enrollment charter school with a policy | ||
described by Subsection (i) may readopt the policy after the | ||
effective date of __.B. No.___, Acts of the 88th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2023, to apply to district or charter school | ||
students enrolled in high school on or after the date the policy is | ||
readopted. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |