Bill Text: TX HB3710 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to providing school districts electronic tutorials for certain end-of-course assessment instruments required for graduation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3710 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3710-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Bell of Kaufman, Allen, Ashby, Bernal, | H.B. No. 3710 | ||
VanDeaver | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3710: | |||
By: Bernal | C.S.H.B. No. 3710 |
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relating to providing school districts electronic tutorials for | ||
certain end-of-course assessment instruments required for | ||
graduation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.0845 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.0845. ELECTRONIC TUTORIALS FOR CERTAIN | ||
END-OF-COURSE ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT PREPARATION. (a) The agency | ||
shall select three end-of-course assessment instruments listed in | ||
Section 39.023(c) and develop three two-hour electronic tutorials | ||
that provide a review of each course for which the applicable | ||
end-of-course assessment instrument is administered. | ||
(b) From funds appropriated for purposes of this section, | ||
the agency shall make the tutorials developed under Subsection (a) | ||
available to school districts. | ||
(b-1) The agency shall provide the tutorials developed | ||
under Subsection (a) not later than the 2020-2021 school year. This | ||
subsection expires September 1, 2021. | ||
(c) A school district may not be charged a fee for access to | ||
a tutorial provided under this section or materials used in | ||
conjunction with a tutorial. | ||
(d) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The Texas Education Agency is required to | ||
implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature | ||
appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
purpose, the Texas Education Agency may, but is not required to, | ||
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations | ||
available for that purpose. | ||
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. |