Bill Text: TX HB120 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 120 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of certain public school students of limited English proficiency from certain state-administered assessment instruments.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-19 - Left pending in committee [HB120 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB120-Introduced.html

	86R2355 MP-D

	By: González of El Paso	H.B. No. 120



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the exemption of certain public school students of
	limited English proficiency from certain state-administered
	assessment instruments.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 39.027(a), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) A student may be administered an accommodated or
	alternative assessment instrument or may be granted an exemption
	from or a postponement of the administration of an assessment
	instrument under:
	(1) Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), or (l) for a period of
	up to two years [~~one year~~] after initial enrollment in a school in
	the United States if the student is of limited English proficiency,
	as defined by Section 29.052, and has not demonstrated proficiency
	in English as determined by the assessment system under Subsection
	(e);
	(2) Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), or (l) for a period of
	up to two years in addition to the exemption period authorized by
	Subdivision (1) if the student has received an exemption under
	Subdivision (1) and:
	(A) is a recent unschooled immigrant; or
	(B) is in a grade for which no assessment
	instrument in the primary language of the student is available; or
	(3) Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), or (l) for a period of
	up to four years, in addition to the exemption period authorized
	under Subdivision (1), if the student's initial enrollment in a
	school in the United States was as an unschooled asylee or refugee.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
	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, 2019.