Bill Amendment: TX SB9 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to the rights and certification of public school educators, including financial and other assistance and waivers provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators, methods of instruction provided in public schools, and certain allotments under the Foundation School Program.

Status: 2023-05-24 - Postponed 6/10/23 [SB9 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB9-House_Amendment_H_2_9-Guerra.html

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Amend CSSB 9 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 21.04892 to read as follows:

Sec. 21.04892.  BILINGUAL TARGET LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST. The board shall propose rules to allow a person who is required to take the Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test to receive a certification under this subchapter who fails to perform satisfactorily on that test to:

(1)  retake only the sections of the test that include the domains on which the person failed to perform satisfactorily; and

(2)  during a retake of the test described by Subdivision (1), demonstrate the person's language proficiency through the completion of fewer components, including eliminating a component that requires the preparation of a lesson plan for a person who fails to perform satisfactorily on a domain requiring completion of that component.