H.B. No. 1244
AN ACT
relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment
instrument administered to public high school students and
reporting requirements for that assessment instrument.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c-7) to read as follows:
(c-7) The United States history end-of-course assessment
instrument adopted under Subsection (c) must include 10 questions
randomly selected by the agency from the civics test administered
by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as part
of the naturalization process under the federal Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). The agency shall:
(1) ensure that the questions included in the
assessment instrument align with the essential knowledge and skills
adopted for the United States history course for which the
instrument is administered; and
(2) annually issue a report:
(A) providing the questions included in the
assessment instrument under this subsection and the answers to
those questions; and
(B) detailing student performance on the
questions included in the assessment instrument under this
subsection, both statewide and disaggregated by school district and
campus.
SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c-7), Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with students who enter the ninth grade
during the 2019-2020 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, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1244 was passed by the House on March
20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1244 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1,
1 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1244 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor