84R11788 PAM-D
By: Hall S.B. No. 1431
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 [even-numbered] year, the
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. [LIMITATION ON] FIELD TESTING OF ASSESSMENT
INSTRUMENTS PROHIBITED.
SECTION 5. Section 39.035(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The [Subject to Subsection (b), the] agency may not
conduct field testing of questions for any assessment instrument
administered under Section 39.023(a), (b), (c), (d), or (l) [that
is separate from the administration of the assessment instrument
not more frequently than every other school year].
SECTION 6. Sections 39.035(b) and (c), Education Code, are
repealed.
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.