83R1611 VOO-F
By: Schwertner S.B. No. 1505
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the frequency of the release of questions and answer
keys to state assessment instruments administered in public
schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.023(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) Under rules adopted by the State Board of Education,
each [every third] year, the agency shall release the questions and
answer keys to each assessment instrument administered under
Subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (l), excluding any assessment
instrument administered to a student for the purpose of retaking
the assessment instrument, after the last time the instrument is
administered for that school year. To ensure a valid bank of
questions for use each year, the agency is not required to release a
question that is being field-tested and was not used to compute the
student's score on the instrument. The agency shall also release,
under board rule, each question that is no longer being
field-tested and that was not used to compute a student's score.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
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, 2013.