Bill Text: TX HB4028 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a committee to recommend a new system for student assessment and public school accountability.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB4028 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB4028-Introduced.html
| By: Huberty | H.B. No. 4028 | |
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| relating to the creation of a committee to recommend a new system | ||
| for student assessment and public school accountability. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 39, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter N to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER N. TEXAS COMMISSION ON NEXT GENERATION ASSESSMENTS AND | ||
| ACCOUNTABILITY | ||
| Sec. 39.501. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "commission" | ||
| means the Texas Commission on Next Generation Assessments and | ||
| Accountability. | ||
| Sec. 39.502. TEXAS COMMISSION ON NEXT GENERATION | ||
| ASSESSMENTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY. (a) The Texas Commission on Next | ||
| Generation Assessments and Accountability is established to | ||
| develop and make recommendations for new systems of student | ||
| assessment and public school accountability. | ||
| (b) The commission is composed of: | ||
| (1) seven members appointed by the governor; | ||
| (2) four members appointed by the lieutenant governor; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) four members appointed by the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives. | ||
| (c) In making appointments under this section, at least one | ||
| person must be appointed to represent each of the following groups: | ||
| (1) a parent or person standing in parental relation | ||
| to a student enrolled in the public school system; | ||
| (2) an educator in the public school system; | ||
| (3) a member of the business community; | ||
| (4) a member of the civic community; | ||
| (5) a leader in student assessment development and | ||
| use; and | ||
| (6) a leader in research concerning student assessment | ||
| and education outcomes. | ||
| Sec. 39.503. PRESIDING OFFICER. The governor shall | ||
| designate the presiding officer of the commission. | ||
| Sec. 39.504. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. A member of | ||
| the commission is not entitled to compensation for service on the | ||
| commission but is entitled to reimbursement for actual and | ||
| necessary expenses incurred in performing commission duties. | ||
| Sec. 39.505. ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AND FUNDING. (a) | ||
| Staff members of the agency shall provide administrative support | ||
| for the commission. | ||
| (b) Funding for the administrative and operational expenses | ||
| of the commission shall be provided by appropriation to the agency | ||
| for that purpose. | ||
| Sec. 39.506. RECOMMENDATIONS. The commission shall develop | ||
| recommendations under this subchapter to address: | ||
| (1) the purpose of a state accountability system and | ||
| the role of student assessment in that system; | ||
| (2) opportunities to assess students that: | ||
| (A) provide actionable information for a parent | ||
| or person standing in parental relation to a student, an educator, | ||
| and the public; | ||
| (B) support learning activities; | ||
| (C) recognize application of skills and | ||
| knowledge; | ||
| (D) measure student educational growth toward | ||
| mastery; and | ||
| (E) value critical thinking; | ||
| (3) alignment of state performance standards with | ||
| college and career readiness requirements in collaboration with the | ||
| Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
| Board; and | ||
| (4) policy changes necessary to enable a student to | ||
| progress through subject matter and grade levels on demonstration | ||
| of mastery. | ||
| Sec. 39.507. REPORT. The commission shall prepare and | ||
| deliver a report to the governor and the legislature that | ||
| recommends statutory changes to improve systems of student | ||
| assessment and public school accountability not later than December | ||
| 1, 2016. | ||
| Sec. 39.508. PUBLIC MEETINGS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION. (a) | ||
| The commission may hold public meetings as needed to fulfill its | ||
| duties under this subchapter. | ||
| (b) The commission is subject to Chapters 551 and 552, | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| Sec. 39.509. COMMISSION ABOLISHED; EXPIRATION OF | ||
| SUBCHAPTER. (a) The commission is abolished January 1, 2017. | ||
| (b) This subchapter expires January 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2015. | ||
