86R15458 GCB-F
By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 4177
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of a student performance designation
for secondary-level substitute assessment instruments and the use
of that designation for public school accountability purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.025(a-2), Education Code, as added by
Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2015, is amended to read as follows:
(a-2) The commissioner shall determine a method by which a
student's satisfactory performance on an advanced placement test,
an international baccalaureate examination, an SAT Subject Test,
the SAT, the ACT, the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) diagnostic
assessment, or any nationally recognized norm-referenced
assessment instrument used by institutions of higher education to
award course credit based on satisfactory performance on the
assessment instrument shall be used to satisfy the requirements
concerning an end-of-course assessment instrument in an equivalent
course as prescribed by Subsection (a). The commissioner shall
determine a method by which a student's satisfactory performance on
the PSAT or the ACT-Plan shall be used to satisfy the requirements
concerning an end-of-course assessment instrument in an equivalent
course as prescribed by Subsection (a). In adopting methods for
substituting satisfactory performance on an assessment instrument
authorized under this subsection for requirements concerning an
end-of-course assessment instrument, the commissioner shall
designate a student's performance on a substitute assessment
instrument as "masters grade-level performance" if the student's
performance entitles the student to receive college credit or if
the student's performance meets the assessment instrument
provider's designated grade-level college readiness performance
benchmark. A student who fails to perform satisfactorily on a
substitute [test or other] assessment instrument authorized under
this subsection[, other than the PSAT or the ACT-Plan,] may retake
that [test or other] assessment instrument for purposes of this
subsection or may take the appropriate end-of-course assessment
instrument. [A student who fails to perform satisfactorily on the
PSAT or the ACT-Plan must take the appropriate end-of-course
assessment instrument.] The commissioner shall adopt rules as
necessary for the administration of this subsection.
SECTION 2. Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-5) to read as follows:
(a-5) The commissioner shall implement the changes in law
made by __.B. _____, 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, to
Section 39.025(a-2), as added by Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of
the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, and Section
39.053(c-4) effective beginning with the 2019-2020 accountability
rating period. This subsection expires September 1, 2020.
SECTION 3. Section 39.053, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c-4) to read as follows:
(c-4) The commissioner by rule shall determine a method for
appropriately crediting a student for growth under Subsection
(c)(2) based on the student's performance, including a student's
"masters grade-level performance," on a substitute assessment
instrument authorized under Section 39.025(a-2), as added by
Chapter 1036 (H.B. 1613), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2015.
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
school year.
SECTION 5. 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.