Bill Text: TX HB4177 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a student performance designation for secondary-level substitute assessment instruments and the use of that designation for public school accountability purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Public Education [HB4177 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4177-Introduced.html
  86R15458 GCB-F
 
  By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 4177
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment of a student performance designation
  for secondary-level substitute assessment instruments and the use
  of that designation for public school accountability purposes.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 39.025(a-2), Education Code, as added by
  Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2015, is amended to read as follows:
         (a-2)  The commissioner shall determine a method by which a
  student's satisfactory performance on an advanced placement test,
  an international baccalaureate examination, an SAT Subject Test,
  the SAT, the ACT, the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) diagnostic
  assessment, or any nationally recognized norm-referenced
  assessment instrument used by institutions of higher education to
  award course credit based on satisfactory performance on the
  assessment instrument shall be used to satisfy the requirements
  concerning an end-of-course assessment instrument in an equivalent
  course as prescribed by Subsection (a). The commissioner shall
  determine a method by which a student's satisfactory performance on
  the PSAT or the ACT-Plan shall be used to satisfy the requirements
  concerning an end-of-course assessment instrument in an equivalent
  course as prescribed by Subsection (a). In adopting methods for
  substituting satisfactory performance on an assessment instrument
  authorized under this subsection for requirements concerning an
  end-of-course assessment instrument, the commissioner shall
  designate a student's performance on a substitute assessment
  instrument as "masters grade-level performance" if the student's
  performance entitles the student to receive college credit or if
  the student's performance meets the assessment instrument
  provider's designated grade-level college readiness performance
  benchmark. A student who fails to perform satisfactorily on a
  substitute [test or other] assessment instrument authorized under
  this subsection[, other than the PSAT or the ACT-Plan,] may retake
  that [test or other] assessment instrument for purposes of this
  subsection or may take the appropriate end-of-course assessment
  instrument. [A student who fails to perform satisfactorily on the
  PSAT or the ACT-Plan must take the appropriate end-of-course
  assessment instrument.] The commissioner shall adopt rules as
  necessary for the administration of this subsection.
         SECTION 2.  Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-5) to read as follows:
         (a-5)  The commissioner shall implement the changes in law
  made by __.B. _____, 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, to
  Section 39.025(a-2), as added by Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of
  the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, and Section
  39.053(c-4) effective beginning with the 2019-2020 accountability
  rating period. This subsection expires September 1, 2020.
         SECTION 3.  Section 39.053, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c-4) to read as follows:
         (c-4)  The commissioner by rule shall determine a method for
  appropriately crediting a student for growth under Subsection
  (c)(2) based on the student's performance, including a student's
  "masters grade-level performance," on a substitute assessment
  instrument authorized under Section 39.025(a-2), as added by
  Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2015.
         SECTION 4.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 5.  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.
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