By: Burton S.B. No. 384
(In the Senate - Filed December 20, 2016; February 1, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 2; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the scheduling of the administration of certain
postsecondary readiness assessment instruments to public high
school students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.0238(c), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) In adopting a schedule for the administration of
postsecondary readiness assessment instruments under this section,
the State Board of Education shall make all reasonable efforts to
schedule end-of-course assessment instruments as required by
Section 39.023(c) so that the administration of those assessment
instruments does not conflict with the administration of a
nationally recognized assessment instrument, examination, or test
administered under a uniform schedule and used by institutions of
higher education to award course credit based on satisfactory
performance on the assessment instrument, examination, or test,
including an advanced placement test or international
baccalaureate examination [require the annual administration of
the postsecondary readiness assessment instruments to occur not
earlier than the second full week in May].
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
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, 2017.
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