Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R1524 AMF-F
2	2	By: Bucy H.B. No. 297
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to eliminating certain state-required end-of-course
10	10	assessment instruments not required by federal law and eliminating
11	11	graduation requirements based on satisfactory performance on
12	12	certain end-of-course assessment instruments.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Section 28.0211(a-8), Education Code, is amended
15	15	to read as follows:
16	16	(a-8) A school district may not be required to provide
17	17	supplemental instruction under Subsection (a-1)(2) to a student in
18	18	more than two subject areas per school year. If the district would
19	19	otherwise be required to provide supplemental instruction to a
20	20	student in more than two subject areas for a school year, the
21	21	district shall prioritize providing supplemental instruction to
22	22	the student in mathematics and reading, or Algebra I or[,] English
23	23	I, [or English II,] as applicable, for that school year.
24	24	SECTION 2. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by
25	25	amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (q) to read as
26	26	follows:
27	27	(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment
28	28	instruments for secondary-level courses in Algebra I, biology, and
29	29	English I[, English II, and United States history]. The Algebra I
30	30	end-of-course assessment instrument must be administered with the
31	31	aid of technology, but may include one or more parts that prohibit
32	32	the use of technology. The English I [and English II]
33	33	end-of-course assessment instrument [instruments] must [each]
34	34	assess essential knowledge and skills in both reading and writing
35	35	and must provide a single score. A school district shall comply
36	36	with State Board of Education rules regarding administration of the
37	37	assessment instruments listed in this subsection. If a student is
38	38	in a special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, the
39	39	student's admission, review, and dismissal committee shall
40	40	determine whether any allowable modification is necessary in
41	41	administering to the student an assessment instrument required
42	42	under this subsection. The State Board of Education shall
43	43	administer the assessment instruments. An end-of-course
44	44	assessment instrument may be administered in multiple parts over
45	45	more than one day. The State Board of Education shall adopt a
46	46	schedule for the administration of end-of-course assessment
47	47	instruments that complies with the requirements of Subsection
48	48	(c-3).
49	49	(q) This subsection applies to end-of-course assessment
50	50	instruments adopted under Subsection (c) for secondary-level
51	51	courses in English II and United States history, as that subsection
52	52	existed before amendment by __.B. No.___, Acts of the 89th
53	53	Legislature, Regular Session, 2025. The agency may retain
54	54	assessment instruments described by this subsection, but may not
55	55	require a school district to administer those assessment
56	56	instruments. A school district may choose to administer an
57	57	assessment instrument described by this subsection. An assessment
58	58	instrument described by this subsection administered by a school
59	59	district may not be used for accountability purposes to measure the
60	60	performance of the district or a district campus.
61	61	SECTION 3. Section 39.025, Education Code, is amended by
62	62	amending Subsections (a-1) and (a-3) and adding Subsections (h),
63	63	(i), and (j) to read as follows:
64	64	(a-1) A student enrolled in a college preparatory
65	65	mathematics or English language arts course under Section 28.014
66	66	who satisfies the Texas Success Initiative (TSI) college readiness
67	67	benchmarks prescribed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
68	68	Board under Section 51.334 on an assessment instrument designated
69	69	by the coordinating board under that section administered at the
70	70	end of the college preparatory mathematics or English language arts
71	71	course satisfies the requirements concerning and is exempt from the
72	72	administration of the Algebra I or the English I [and English II]
73	73	end-of-course assessment instrument [instruments], as applicable,
74	74	as prescribed by Section 39.023(c), even if the student did not
75	75	perform satisfactorily on a previous administration of the
76	76	applicable end-of-course assessment instrument. A student who
77	77	fails to perform satisfactorily on the assessment instrument
78	78	designated by the coordinating board under Section 51.334
79	79	administered as provided by this subsection may retake that
80	80	assessment instrument for purposes of this subsection or may take
81	81	the appropriate end-of-course assessment instrument.
82	82	(a-3) A student who, after retaking an end-of-course
83	83	assessment instrument for Algebra I [or English II], has failed to
84	84	perform satisfactorily as required by Subsection (a)[,] but who
85	85	receives a score of proficient on the Texas Success Initiative
86	86	(TSI) diagnostic assessment for mathematics [the corresponding
87	87	subject for which the student failed to perform satisfactorily on
88	88	the end-of-course assessment instrument] satisfies the requirement
89	89	concerning the Algebra I [or English II] end-of-course assessment[,
90	90	as applicable].
91	91	(h) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), in order to receive a
92	92	high school diploma, a student is not required to achieve a scale
93	93	score that indicates satisfactory performance on an end-of-course
94	94	assessment for secondary-level courses in English II or United
95	95	States history after the effective date of ___.B. No. _____, Acts of
96	96	the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, regardless of the date
97	97	the student enters high school.
98	98	(i) Subject to Subsection (j), a school district or
99	99	open-enrollment charter school policy that requires a student to
100	100	demonstrate satisfactory performance on an end-of-course
101	101	assessment for secondary-level courses in English II or United
102	102	States history does not apply to a student of the district or school
103	103	as of the effective date of ___.B. No. _____, Acts of the 89th
104	104	Legislature, Regular Session, 2025, regardless of the date that
105	105	student enters high school or whether the student is currently
106	106	enrolled in high school.
107	107	(j) The board of trustees of a school district or the
108	108	governing body of an open-enrollment charter school with a policy
109	109	described by Subsection (i) may readopt the policy after the
110	110	effective date of ___.B. No. _____, Acts of the 89th Legislature,
111	111	Regular Session, 2025, to apply to district or charter school
112	112	students enrolled in high school on or after the date the policy is
113	113	readopted.
114	114	SECTION 4. Section 39.023(c-9), Education Code, is
115	115	repealed.
116	116	SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
117	117	school year.
118	118	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
119	119	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
120	120	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
121	121	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
122	122	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.