Bill Text: TX HB657 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for a student enrolled in a special education program who fails to perform satisfactorily on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB657 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB657-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 657 |
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relating to procedures for a student enrolled in a special | ||
education program who fails to perform satisfactorily on certain | ||
assessment instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.0211, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsections (i-1) and (i-2) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(i) The admission, review, and dismissal committee of a | ||
student who participates in a district's special education program | ||
under Subchapter A [ |
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satisfactorily on an assessment instrument specified under | ||
Subsection (a) and administered under Section 39.023(a) or (b) must | ||
meet before the student is administered the assessment instrument | ||
for the second time. The committee shall determine: | ||
(1) the manner in which the student will participate | ||
in an accelerated instruction program under this section; and | ||
(2) whether the student will be promoted in accordance | ||
with Subsection (i-1) or retained under this section. | ||
(i-1) At a meeting of the admission, review, and dismissal | ||
committee of a student under Subsection (i), the committee may | ||
promote the student to the next grade level if the committee | ||
concludes that the student has made sufficient progress in the | ||
measurable academic goals contained in the student's | ||
individualized education program developed under Section 29.005. A | ||
school district that promotes a student under this subsection is | ||
not required to provide an additional opportunity for the student | ||
to perform satisfactorily on the assessment instrument. | ||
(i-2) Not later than September 1 of each school year, a | ||
school district must notify the parent or person standing in | ||
parental relation to a student enrolled in the district's special | ||
education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, of the options of | ||
the admission, review, and dismissal committee under Subsections | ||
(i) and (i-1) if the student does not perform satisfactorily on an | ||
assessment instrument. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 657 was passed by the House on April | ||
27, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 14, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 657 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |