Bill Text: TX SB1005 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain assessment instruments as secondary exit-level assessment instruments to allow certain public school students to receive a high school diploma.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1005 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1005-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain assessment instruments as secondary exit-level assessment instruments to allow certain public school students to receive a high school diploma.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1005 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1005-Comm_Sub.html
By: Campbell | S.B. No. 1005 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2017; March 6, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Education; | ||
May 1, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, | ||
Nays 0; May 1, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the use of the SAT or the ACT as a secondary exit-level | ||
assessment instrument to allow certain public school students to | ||
receive a high school diploma. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsection (f-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(f) The commissioner shall by rule adopt a transition plan | ||
to implement the amendments made by Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), | ||
Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, replacing | ||
general subject assessment instruments administered at the high | ||
school level with end-of-course assessment instruments. The rules | ||
must provide for the end-of-course assessment instruments adopted | ||
under Section 39.023(c) to be administered beginning with students | ||
enrolled in [ |
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2011-2012 school year. During the period under which the | ||
transition to end-of-course assessment instruments is made: | ||
(1) for students entering a grade above the ninth | ||
grade during the 2011-2012 school year or students repeating ninth | ||
grade during the 2011-2012 school year, the commissioner shall | ||
retain, administer, and use for purposes of accreditation and other | ||
campus and district accountability measures under this chapter the | ||
assessment instruments required by Section 39.023(a) or (c), as | ||
that section existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 (S.B. | ||
No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007; and | ||
(2) a student subject to Subdivision (1) may not | ||
receive a high school diploma unless the student has performed | ||
satisfactorily on the SAT or the ACT as provided by Subsection (f-1) | ||
or on each required assessment instrument administered under | ||
Section 39.023(c), as that section existed before amendment by | ||
Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2007. | ||
(f-1) The commissioner shall establish satisfactory | ||
performance levels for the SAT and the ACT that are equivalent in | ||
rigor to the performance level required to be met under Subsection | ||
(a), as that subsection existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 | ||
(S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
2007, that qualify a student subject to Subsection (f)(1) to | ||
receive a high school diploma. Notwithstanding Subsection (f), the | ||
commissioner is not required after September 1, 2017, to maintain | ||
and administer assessment instruments administered under Section | ||
39.023(c), as that section existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 | ||
(S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
2007. | ||
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. | ||
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