Bill Text: TX SB1212 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of alternative or substitute exit-level assessment instruments to allow certain public school students to receive a high school diploma.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Referred to Education [SB1212 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1212-Introduced.html
85R12560 MK-F | ||
By: Taylor of Galveston | S.B. No. 1212 |
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relating to the use of alternative or substitute exit-level | ||
assessment instruments 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(f), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(f) A student who entered a grade above the ninth grade | ||
during the 2011-2012 school year or who repeated the ninth grade | ||
during the 2011-2012 school year may not receive a high school | ||
diploma unless the student [ |
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(1) has performed satisfactorily on each required | ||
assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(c), as | ||
that section existed before September 1, 2007 [ |
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(2) meets the exit-level requirements using an | ||
alternative assessment instrument adopted by the commissioner | ||
under Subsection (d) or an allowed substitute assessment instrument | ||
selected by the commissioner under Subsection (a-2), as added by | ||
Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2015 [ |
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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. |