81R11397 CAS-D
By: Turner of Harris H.B. No. 3124
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to scoring the state exit-level assessment instruments
administered to public school students.
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) 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, to this
section and Sections 39.023(a) and (c) and 39.051(b)(5). The rules
must provide for the end-of-course assessment instruments adopted
under Section 39.023(c) to be administered beginning with students
entering the ninth grade during the 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:
(A) [,] the commissioner shall retain,
administer, and use for campus and district ratings under
Subchapter D 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
(B) notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, for any purpose under this chapter, each student is
required only to achieve a cumulative score on the exit-level
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, that is
at least equal to the product of the number of exit-level assessment
instruments administered under the section before the amendment and
70, with each exit-level assessment instrument scored on a scale of
100; and
(2) the agency may defer releasing assessment
instrument questions and answer keys as required by Section
39.023(e) to the extent necessary to develop additional assessment
instruments.
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, 2009.