Bill Text: TX HB2349 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to public school assessment, performance standards, and course requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB2349 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2349-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2349 |
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relating to public school assessment, performance standards, and | ||
course requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.025(c-5), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c-5) A student may earn a performance acknowledgment on the | ||
student's diploma and transcript by satisfying the requirements for | ||
that acknowledgment adopted by the State Board of Education by | ||
rule. An acknowledgment under this subsection may be earned: | ||
(1) for outstanding performance: | ||
(A) in a dual credit course; | ||
(B) in bilingualism and biliteracy; | ||
(C) on a college advanced placement test or | ||
international baccalaureate examination; [ |
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(D) on an established, valid, reliable, and | ||
nationally norm-referenced preliminary college preparation | ||
assessment instrument used to measure a student's progress toward | ||
readiness for college and the workplace; or | ||
(E) on an established, valid, reliable, and | ||
nationally norm-referenced assessment instrument used by colleges | ||
and universities as part of their undergraduate admissions process | ||
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(2) for earning a state recognized or nationally or | ||
internationally recognized business or industry certification or | ||
license. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows: | ||
(e-1) The agency may defer releasing assessment instrument | ||
questions and answer keys as required by Subsection (e) to the | ||
extent necessary to develop additional assessment instruments. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.02315 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.02315. REPORTING RESULTS OF ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS | ||
FOR OUT-OF-STATE TRANSFER STUDENTS. (a) For assessment | ||
instruments required to be administered under Section 39.023, the | ||
agency shall adopt procedures to ensure that the results of the | ||
assessment instruments administered to students who transfer from a | ||
school district in another state to a school district in this state | ||
are reported to each school district separately from the results of | ||
assessment instruments administered to other students. | ||
(b) The commissioner by rule shall: | ||
(1) ensure that the results of assessment instruments | ||
administered to students who transfer from a school district in | ||
another state to a school district in this state reported under | ||
Subsection (a) are properly identified in agency systems that | ||
report and track academic performance of students; and | ||
(2) adopt procedures for reporting and tracking data | ||
relating to students who transfer from a school district in another | ||
state to a school district in this state. | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 39.025(a), (f), and (g), Education | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioner shall adopt rules requiring a student | ||
in the foundation high school program under Section 28.025 to be | ||
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in Section 39.023(c) only for a course in which the student is | ||
enrolled and for which an end-of-course assessment instrument is | ||
administered. A student is required to achieve a scale score that | ||
indicates satisfactory performance, as determined by the | ||
commissioner under Section 39.0241(a), on each end-of-course | ||
assessment instrument administered to the student [ |
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subsection that is not based on a 100-point scale scoring system, | ||
the commissioner shall provide for conversion, in accordance with | ||
commissioner rule, of the scale score to an equivalent score based | ||
on a 100-point scale scoring system. A student may not receive a | ||
high school diploma until the student has performed satisfactorily | ||
on end-of-course assessment instruments in the manner provided | ||
under this subsection. This subsection does not require a student | ||
to demonstrate readiness to enroll in an institution of higher | ||
education. | ||
(f) The commissioner shall by rule adopt a transition plan | ||
to implement the amendments made by Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), | ||
Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, replacing | ||
general subject assessment instruments administered at the high | ||
school level with end-of-course assessment instruments. The rules | ||
must provide for the end-of-course assessment instruments adopted | ||
under Section 39.023(c) to be administered beginning with students | ||
entering the ninth grade during the 2011-2012 school year. During | ||
the period under which the transition to end-of-course assessment | ||
instruments is made: | ||
(1) for students entering a grade above the ninth | ||
grade during the 2011-2012 school year, the commissioner shall | ||
retain, administer, and use for purposes of accreditation and other | ||
campus and district accountability measures under this chapter the | ||
assessment instruments required by Section 39.023(a) or (c), as | ||
that section existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 (S.B. | ||
No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007; and | ||
(2) a student subject to Subdivision (1) may not | ||
receive a high school diploma unless the student has performed | ||
satisfactorily on each required assessment instrument administered | ||
under Section 39.023(c) as that section existed before amendment by | ||
Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular | ||
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(g) Rules adopted under Subsection (f) must require that | ||
each student who will be subject to the requirements of Subsection | ||
(a) is entitled to notice of the specific requirements applicable | ||
to the student. Notice under this subsection must be provided not | ||
later than the date the student enters the eighth grade. | ||
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SECTION 5. The following provisions of the Education Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 39.023(o); | ||
(2) Section 39.0233(c); and | ||
(3) Section 39.025(b-2). | ||
SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 7. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2349 was passed by the House on May | ||
11, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2349 on May 29, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2349 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |