Bill Text: TX HB120 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of certain public school students of limited English proficiency from certain state-administered assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
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 |
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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 [ |
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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. |