85R12560 MK-F
By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 1212
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of alternative or substitute exit-level
assessment instruments to allow certain public school students to
receive a high school diploma.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.025(f), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(f) A student who entered a grade above the ninth grade
during the 2011-2012 school year or who repeated the ninth grade
during the 2011-2012 school year may not receive a high school
diploma unless the student [The commissioner shall by rule adopt a
transition plan to implement the amendments made by Chapter 1312
(S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session,
2007, replacing general subject assessment instruments
administered at the high school level with end-of-course assessment
instruments. The rules must provide for the end-of-course
assessment instruments adopted under Section 39.023(c) to be
administered beginning with students entering the ninth grade
during the 2011-2012 school year. During the period under which the
transition to end-of-course assessment instruments is made]:
(1) has performed satisfactorily on each required
assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(c), as
that section existed before September 1, 2007 [for students
entering a grade above the ninth grade during the 2011-2012 school
year, the commissioner shall retain, administer, and use for
purposes of accreditation and other campus and district
accountability measures under this chapter the assessment
instruments required by Section 39.023(a) or (c), as that section
existed before amendment by Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of
the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007]; or [and]
(2) meets the exit-level requirements using an
alternative assessment instrument adopted by the commissioner
under Subsection (d) or an allowed substitute assessment instrument
selected by the commissioner under Subsection (a-2), as added by
Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2015 [a student subject to Subdivision (1) may not receive
a high school diploma unless the student has performed
satisfactorily on each required assessment instrument administered
under Section 39.023(c) as that section existed before amendment by
Chapter 1312 (S.B. No. 1031), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2007].
SECTION 2. 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, 2017.