83R1088 PAM-D
 
  By: White H.B. No. 94
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the validity and reliability of assessment instruments
  administered by the state in public schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 39.038 to read as follows:
         Sec. 39.038.  ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT REVIEW; REPORTING. (a)
  To ensure the validity and reliability of an assessment instrument
  administered under Section 39.023, the agency shall evaluate the
  assessment instrument:
               (1)  before the assessment instrument is first
  administered; and
               (2)  periodically during the period the assessment
  instrument is administered.
         (b)  The commissioner by rule shall adopt, for purposes of
  this section, standards for the validity and reliability of
  assessment instruments administered under Section 39.023 and
  procedures to conduct evaluations of those assessment instruments.
         (c)  The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website
  the results of evaluations conducted under this section.
         (d)  The commissioner shall adopt rules to administer this
  section.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2014, the commissioner
  of education shall adopt rules as provided by Section 39.038,
  Education Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 39.038(a)(1), Education
  Code, as added by this Act, if an assessment instrument
  administered under Section 39.023, Education Code, was first
  administered before the 2014-2015 school year, the Texas Education
  Agency shall evaluate the assessment instrument as provided by
  Section 39.038, Education Code, as added by this Act, before
  September 1, 2014.
         SECTION 4.  Section 39.038(a), Education Code, as added by
  this Act, applies to administration of assessment instruments under
  Section 39.023, Education Code, beginning with the 2014-2015 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, 2013.