| 1 | | - | H.B. No. 1244 |
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| 1 | + | By: Ashby, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 1244 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Received from the House March 21, 2019; |
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| 3 | + | March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | + | Education; May 15, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable |
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| 5 | + | Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; |
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| 6 | + | May 15, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | + | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1244 By: Campbell |
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| 4 | 12 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 13 | | relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment |
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| 6 | 14 | | instrument administered to public high school students and |
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| 7 | 15 | | reporting requirements for that assessment instrument. |
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| 8 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 10 | 18 | | adding Subsection (c-7) to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 19 | | (c-7) The United States history end-of-course assessment |
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| 12 | 20 | | instrument adopted under Subsection (c) must include 10 questions |
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| 13 | 21 | | randomly selected by the agency from the civics test administered |
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| 14 | 22 | | by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as part |
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| 15 | 23 | | of the naturalization process under the federal Immigration and |
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| 16 | 24 | | Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). The agency shall: |
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| 17 | 25 | | (1) ensure that the questions included in the |
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| 18 | 26 | | assessment instrument align with the essential knowledge and skills |
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| 19 | 27 | | adopted for the United States history course for which the |
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| 20 | 28 | | instrument is administered; and |
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| 21 | 29 | | (2) annually issue a report: |
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| 22 | 30 | | (A) providing the questions included in the |
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| 23 | 31 | | assessment instrument under this subsection and the answers to |
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| 24 | 32 | | those questions; and |
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| 25 | 33 | | (B) detailing student performance on the |
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| 26 | 34 | | questions included in the assessment instrument under this |
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| 27 | 35 | | subsection, both statewide and disaggregated by school district and |
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| 28 | 36 | | campus. |
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| 29 | 37 | | SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c-7), Education Code, as added by |
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| 30 | 38 | | this Act, applies beginning with students who enter the ninth grade |
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| 31 | 39 | | during the 2019-2020 school year. |
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| 32 | 40 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 33 | 41 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 34 | 42 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 35 | 43 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 36 | 44 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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| 37 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 38 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 39 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 1244 was passed by the House on March |
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| 40 | | - | 20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, 1 present, not |
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| 41 | | - | voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. |
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| 42 | | - | No. 1244 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, |
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| 43 | | - | 1 present, not voting. |
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| 44 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 45 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 46 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 1244 was passed by the Senate, with |
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| 47 | | - | amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays |
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| 48 | | - | 0. |
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| 49 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 50 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 51 | | - | APPROVED: __________________ |
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| 52 | | - | Date |
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| 53 | | - | __________________ |
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| 54 | | - | Governor |
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| 45 | + | * * * * * |
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