Bill Text: TX HB63 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a moratorium on administering assessment instruments to public school students under the public school accountability system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-07 - Referred to Public Education [HB63 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB63-Introduced.html
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| By: Flynn | H.B. No. 63 | |
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| relating to a moratorium on administering assessment instruments to | ||
| public school students under the public school accountability | ||
| system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 39.0221 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39.0221. TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON ADMINISTERING | ||
| ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The agency shall develop and | ||
| implement a plan for school districts to suspend the administration | ||
| of assessment instruments under Section 39.023 for the 2011-2012 | ||
| and 2012-2013 school years. | ||
| (b) A superintendent of a school district may suspend | ||
| district administration of assessment instruments under Section | ||
| 39.023 for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years if the | ||
| suspension is: | ||
| (1) approved by the board of trustees of the district; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) consistent with the plan developed by the agency | ||
| under Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) A superintendent of a school district may apply funds | ||
| the superintendent identifies as savings from expenditures | ||
| otherwise required for assessment instruments or the | ||
| administration of assessment instruments only to: | ||
| (1) the retention of teachers or other district | ||
| personnel with direct student contact and involvement; or | ||
| (2) consumable resources requested by classroom | ||
| teachers for classroom instruction. | ||
| (d) The amount of state funding a school district receives | ||
| each school year is not contingent on a superintendent's decision | ||
| under this section concerning the administration of assessment | ||
| instruments under Section 39.023 for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 | ||
| school years. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2013. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
