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 |
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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 | ||
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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. |