STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 54th Legislature (2014)

SENATE BILL 1379	By:	Paddack

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to General Educational Development testing; directing the State Board of Career and Technology Education to ensure that computer-based and paper-based GED tests are available; providing for certain consideration; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 14-103.5 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
In providing for the availability of General Educational Development (GED) tests, the State Board of Career and Technology Education shall ensure that computer-based and paper-based versions of the test are available at testing sites across the state.  In choosing a GED testing vendor, the State Board of Career and Technology Education shall give due consideration to the affordability and accessibility of the GED test, the ability of a student to retest at no additional cost, test design and validation by experts in assessment development for fair and reliable results.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2014.
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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