Bill Text: TX SB1309 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to assessment alternatives or accommodations for certain public school students in special education programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-21 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1309 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1309-Engrossed.html
| By: Davis, et al. | S.B. No. 1309 | |
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| relating to assessment alternatives or accommodations for certain | ||
| public school students in special education programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) The agency, in conjunction with appropriate | ||
| interested persons, shall redevelop assessment instruments adopted | ||
| or developed under Subsection (b) for administration to | ||
| significantly cognitively disabled students in a manner consistent | ||
| with federal law. An assessment instrument under this subsection | ||
| may not require a teacher to prepare tasks or materials for a | ||
| student who will be administered such an assessment instrument. | ||
| (b-2) Assessment instruments redeveloped under Subsection | ||
| (b-1) shall be administered beginning not later than the 2014-2015 | ||
| school year. This subsection expires September 1, 2015. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
