| 1 | 1 | | 85R12560 MK-F |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 1212 |
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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 the use of alternative or substitute exit-level |
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| 8 | 8 | | assessment instruments to allow certain public school students to |
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| 9 | 9 | | receive a high school diploma. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 39.025(f), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 12 | 12 | | read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (f) A student who entered a grade above the ninth grade |
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| 14 | 14 | | during the 2011-2012 school year or who repeated the ninth grade |
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| 15 | 15 | | during the 2011-2012 school year may not receive a high school |
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| 16 | 16 | | diploma unless the student [The commissioner shall by rule adopt a |
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| 17 | 17 | | transition plan to implement the amendments made by Chapter 1312 |
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| 18 | 18 | | (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, |
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| 19 | 19 | | 2007, replacing general subject assessment instruments |
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| 20 | 20 | | administered at the high school level with end-of-course assessment |
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| 21 | 21 | | instruments. The rules must provide for the end-of-course |
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| 22 | 22 | | assessment instruments adopted under Section 39.023(c) to be |
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| 23 | 23 | | administered beginning with students entering the ninth grade |
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| 24 | 24 | | during the 2011-2012 school year. During the period under which the |
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| 25 | 25 | | transition to end-of-course assessment instruments is made]: |
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| 26 | 26 | | (1) has performed satisfactorily on each required |
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| 27 | 27 | | assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(c), as |
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| 28 | 28 | | that section existed before September 1, 2007 [for students |
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| 29 | 29 | | entering a grade above the ninth grade during the 2011-2012 school |
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| 30 | 30 | | year, the commissioner shall retain, administer, and use for |
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| 31 | 31 | | purposes of accreditation and other campus and district |
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| 32 | 32 | | accountability measures under this chapter the assessment |
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| 33 | 33 | | instruments required by Section 39.023(a) or (c), as that section |
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| 34 | 34 | | existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of |
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| 35 | 35 | | the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007]; or [and] |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) meets the exit-level requirements using an |
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| 37 | 37 | | alternative assessment instrument adopted by the commissioner |
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| 38 | 38 | | under Subsection (d) or an allowed substitute assessment instrument |
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| 39 | 39 | | selected by the commissioner under Subsection (a-2), as added by |
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| 40 | 40 | | Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular |
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| 41 | 41 | | Session, 2015 [a student subject to Subdivision (1) may not receive |
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| 42 | 42 | | a high school diploma unless the student has performed |
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| 43 | 43 | | satisfactorily on each required assessment instrument administered |
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| 44 | 44 | | under Section 39.023(c) as that section existed before amendment by |
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| 45 | 45 | | Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular |
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| 46 | 46 | | Session, 2007]. |
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| 47 | 47 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 48 | 48 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 49 | 49 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 50 | 50 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 51 | 51 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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