| 1 | 1 | | 84R9511 CAE-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Simmons H.B. No. 3055 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to assessment of public school students enrolled in a |
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| 8 | 8 | | special education program. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 11 | 11 | | adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (b-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), (b-1), or any other |
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| 13 | 13 | | law, and to the extent consistent with federal law, a student in a |
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| 14 | 14 | | special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, may not |
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| 15 | 15 | | be administered an assessment instrument if the student's parent or |
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| 16 | 16 | | a person standing in parental relation to the student has submitted |
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| 17 | 17 | | to the district or school a written statement indicating that the |
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| 18 | 18 | | parent or person standing in parental relation to the student |
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| 19 | 19 | | elects to exempt the student from administration of an assessment |
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| 20 | 20 | | instrument. The student's admission, review, and dismissal |
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| 21 | 21 | | committee, in consultation with the student's parent or a person |
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| 22 | 22 | | standing in parental relation to the student, shall develop an |
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| 23 | 23 | | individual progress plan for a student exempt from administration |
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| 24 | 24 | | of an assessment instrument as provided by this subsection. The |
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| 25 | 25 | | commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to administer this |
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| 26 | 26 | | subsection. |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 |
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| 28 | 28 | | school year. |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 30 | 30 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 31 | 31 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 32 | 32 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 33 | 33 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
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