82R9273 VOO-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 2140
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the days a state assessment instrument may be
administered.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(c-3), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c-3) In adopting a schedule for the administration of
assessment instruments under this section, the State Board of
Education shall require:
(1) assessment instruments administered under
Subsection (a) to be administered on a schedule so that the first
assessment instrument is administered at least two weeks later than
the date on which the first assessment instrument was administered
under Subsection (a) during the 2006-2007 school year; [and]
(2) the spring administration of end-of-course
assessment instruments under Subsection (c) to occur in each school
district not earlier than the first full week in May, except that
the spring administration of the end-of-course assessment
instruments in English I, English II, and English III must be
permitted to occur at an earlier date; and
(3) assessment instruments administered under this
section to be administered only on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or
Thursday.
SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c-3), Education Code, as amended
by this Act, applies beginning with the 2011-2012 school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2011.