Bill Text: TX HB66 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of the performance of students of limited English proficiency on state assessment instruments and inclusion of related information in campus report cards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-20 - Referred to Education [HB66 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB66-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of the performance of students of limited English proficiency on state assessment instruments and inclusion of related information in campus report cards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-20 - Referred to Education [HB66 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB66-Introduced.html
84R1868 SRS-D | ||
By: González | H.B. No. 66 |
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relating to the consideration of the performance of certain | ||
students of limited English proficiency on state assessment | ||
instruments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.054, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (d-2) and (d-3) to read as follows: | ||
(d-2) Except as provided by Subsection (d-3), in evaluating | ||
performance under Subsection (c), the commissioner may not lower a | ||
performance rating for purposes of this chapter based on | ||
unsatisfactory performance on an assessment instrument | ||
administered under Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), (l), or (n) to a | ||
student for a period of three years after the student's initial | ||
enrollment in a school in the United States if the student is a | ||
student of limited English proficiency, as defined by Section | ||
29.052. Unless a student is enrolled in a school in the United | ||
States for a period of at least 60 consecutive days during a year, | ||
the student may not be considered to be enrolled in a school in the | ||
United States for that year for purposes of this subsection. This | ||
subsection does not apply to a performance rating for purposes of: | ||
(1) compliance monitoring under Section 7.028; or | ||
(2) public school accountability under federal law. | ||
(d-3) Subsection (d-2) does not apply if the assessment | ||
instrument administered to a student of limited English proficiency | ||
is in the student's native language. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 39.054(d-2), Education Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies to a student regardless of the date on which the | ||
student initially enrolled in a school in the United States. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |