Bill Text: TX SB1431 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to promoting efficiency in school district administration by limiting, reducing, simplifying, or eliminating certain processes and procedures.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Referred to Education [SB1431 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1431-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.B. No. 1431 |
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relating to promoting efficiency in school district administration | ||
by limiting, reducing, simplifying, or eliminating certain | ||
processes and procedures. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 7.060(a) and (b), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) At least once each [ |
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commissioner shall review and, to the greatest extent practicable, | ||
reduce and consolidate written reports and other paperwork, | ||
including surveys, required of a school district by the agency. | ||
(b) The commissioner shall adopt a policy that limits | ||
written reports and other paperwork, including surveys, that a | ||
principal or classroom teacher may be required by the agency to | ||
complete. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.1045 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.1045. COMMISSIONER REVIEW OF ASSESSMENT | ||
PROCEDURES. The commissioner shall review the procedures for | ||
performing, reporting, and analyzing the results of physical | ||
fitness assessment instruments administered under this subchapter | ||
and develop alternative procedures for simplifying, to the greatest | ||
extent practicable, each stage of the process. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.0225 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.0225. PERSONNEL FOR ADMINISTRATION OF ASSESSMENT | ||
INSTRUMENTS. Each school district shall review assessment | ||
instrument administration procedures and develop a plan to reduce, | ||
to the greatest extent practicable, the number of personnel used to | ||
administer assessment instruments required under Section 39.023. | ||
SECTION 4. The heading to Section 39.035, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.035. [ |
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INSTRUMENTS PROHIBITED. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 39.035(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The [ |
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conduct field testing of questions for any assessment instrument | ||
administered under Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), (d), or (l) [ |
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SECTION 6. Sections 39.035(b) and (c), Education Code, are | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |