| 1 | 1 | | 2019S0331-1 03/04/19 |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Campbell S.B. No. 1777 |
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| 4 | 4 | | |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the United States history end-of-course assessment |
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| 8 | 8 | | instrument for public high school students. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 11 | 11 | | adding Subsection (c-7) to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (c-7) The United States history end-of-course assessment |
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| 13 | 13 | | instrument adopted under Subsection (c) must include 10 questions |
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| 14 | 14 | | randomly selected by the agency from the civics test administered |
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| 15 | 15 | | by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as part |
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| 16 | 16 | | of the naturalization process under the federal Immigration and |
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| 17 | 17 | | Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). The agency shall: |
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| 18 | 18 | | (1) ensure that only questions aligning with the |
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| 19 | 19 | | United States history curriculum adopted under Subchapter A, |
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| 20 | 20 | | Chapter 28, are included in the end-of-course assessment |
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| 21 | 21 | | instrument; and |
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| 22 | 22 | | (2) annually report which questions were included in |
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| 23 | 23 | | the end-of-course assessment instrument under this subsection, |
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| 24 | 24 | | their answers, and the campus, district, and statewide data |
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| 25 | 25 | | associated with students' performance under this subsection. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with students who |
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| 27 | 27 | | enter the ninth grade during the 2019-2020 school year. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 29 | 29 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 30 | 30 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 31 | 31 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 32 | 32 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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