SB 8 — Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

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This bill amends 32 section(s) of the Texas statutes: Section 26.005, Education Code, Section 39.022, Education Code, Section 39.023, Education Code, Section 39.02301, Education Code, Section 39.0263, Section 39.0263, Education Code.

• Section 26.005, Education Code

  39.023(e) → AND ASSESSMENT RESULTS (a) 39.02301(m) (b) The agency shall make available to a parent the results of each state assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023 to the parent's child. The results must be accessible by one click from the home page of an Internet website maintained by the agency. Identifying information that is necessary to access a child's results must: (1) meet agency security protocols; (2) be unique to the child; and (3) be under the control of the child's parent without the need to secure additional information from a third party. (c) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school shall provide to a parent of a child enrolled at the district or school access to the Internet website described by Subsection (b) through a parent portal maintained by the district or school and notify the parent regarding that access each time the agency makes available the results of an assessment instrument administered to the parent's child.

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• Section 39.022, Education Code

  The State Board of Education by rule a knowledge- and skills-based to ensure school accountability for student achievement that achieves the goals provided under Section 4.002 After adopting rules under this section, the State Board of Education statewide adopting any subsequent modification of the rules (b) statewide provide assessment instruments that are as short as practicable and (2) minimize the disruption to the educational program → INSTRUCTIONALLY SUPPORTIVE To ensure school accountability for student achievement that achieves the goals provided under Section 4.002, the agency an instructionally supportive : (1) provides for progress monitoring; (2) is balanced, innovative, and streamlined; and (3) based on essential knowledge and skills adopted by the State Board of Education under Section 28.002 (b) The primary objective of an instructionally supportive assessment program created and implemented under this section is to benefit the students of this state. (c) The agency instructionally supportive modifying the program (d) instructionally supportive provide information regarding student academic achievement and learning progress to: (A) public schools for the purpose of improving student instruction (B) students, parents, and teachers for the purpose of guiding learning objectives; and (C) education researchers for the purpose of comparing student academic achievement and learning progress data at the national and statewide levels; (2) evaluate the achievement level and learning progress of each assessed student in reading language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies; (3) provide information to the agency for the purpose of making decisions regarding public school accountability, campus recognition, and the improvement of public school operations and management; (4) identify the educational strengths and needs of individual students and the readiness of those students to be promoted to the next grade level or to graduate from high school; (5) assess whether educational goals and curricular standards are being met at the campus, district, and state levels; (6) provide information to help evaluate and develop educational programs and policies; and (7) provide instructional staff with immediate, actionable, and useful information regarding student achievement of standards and benchmarks that may be used to improve the staff's delivery of student instruction (e) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school shall administer assessment instruments as required under this chapter in accordance with the instructionally supportive assessment program.

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• Sec. 39.0225. TRANSITION OF ASSESSMENT PROGRAM. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, not later than the beginning of the 2027-2028 school year, the agency shall transition the program for assessment instruments administered under this subchapter from the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) assessment program to the instructionally supportive assessment program described by Section 39.022. (b) The agency shall contract with a nationally recognized provider of assessment instruments for the purpose of making the transition described by Subsection (a). (c) Students shall continue to be assessed under the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) assessment program until the instructionally supportive assessment program described by Section 39.022 is available beginning with the 2027-2028 school year. (d) During the 2025-2026, 2026-2027, and 2027-2028 school years, the agency, school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools shall conduct any field testing of questions for assessment instruments proposed to be adopted or developed under Section 39.023 necessary to implement the transition under this section. (e) Not later than February 15, 2027, the agency shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairs of the standing legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over public school assessments a report regarding the status of the implementation of the instructionally supportive assessment program described by Section 39.022. (f) This section expires September 1, 2029. Sec. 39.0226. ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT STUDY. (a) The commissioner shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with a public institution of higher education to conduct a study on items proposed to be included in an assessment instrument required to be administered under Section 39.023(a) under the instructionally supportive assessment program described by Section 39.022. The study must determine whether, for each item that is designed to be on grade level, the item: (1) is written at a reading level appropriate for students at that grade level; and (2) includes only: (A) passages, questions, answers, or other content aligned with the essential knowledge and skills adopted by the State Board of Education under Section 28.002 for the applicable subject for that grade level or a previous grade level; and (B) passages written at a reading level not higher than that grade level. (b) Not later than December 1, 2028, the commissioner shall submit to the legislature and the chairs of the standing legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over primary and secondary education a report that includes the results of the study conducted under Subsection (a). (c) This section expires December 31, 2028.

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• Section 39.023, Education Code

  The criterion-referenced a criterion-referenced A school district shall comply with State Board of Education rules regarding administration of the assessment instruments listed in this subsection. If a student is in a special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, the student's admission, review, and dismissal committee shall determine whether any allowable modification is necessary in administering to the student an assessment instrument required under this subsection. The State Board of Education shall administer the assessment instruments. An end-of-course assessment instrument may be administered in multiple parts over more than one day. The State Board of Education shall adopt a schedule for the administration of end-of-course assessment instruments that complies with the requirements of Subsection (c-3). not later than the 21st day after the date the assessment instrument is administered , except Subsection (d), 39.022 and each assessment instrument required under Subsection (d) State Board of Education → In creating and implementing the instructionally supportive assessment program under Section 39.022, the beginning-of-year, middle-of-year, and end-of-year language arts language arts an or develop and provide for the availability of optional beginning-of-year and middle-of-year assessment instruments for those courses in accordance with the timeline provided by Section 39.02301 : (1) ; and (2) provide to the parent of a student enrolled in the district: (A) the results of each assessment instrument administered under this section to the student; and (B) instructions for accessing any online portal maintained by the agency that provides results of assessment instruments administered to the student and Section 39.02301 39.001 or developed agency (q) The agency shall approve a list of alternative norm-referenced assessment instruments that meet the requirements of this subchapter and that a school district or open-enrollment charter school may administer in place of a beginning-of-year or middle-of-year assessment instrument adopted or developed under this section. The agency shall: (1) ensure the list approved under this subsection includes multiple alternative assessment instruments; and (2) adopt a process by which a school district or open-enrollment charter school may submit to the agency an assessment instrument to be included on the list approved under this subsection.

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• Section 39.02301, Education Code

  Sec. 39.02301. ADOPTION OR DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) An assessment instrument adopted or developed under Section 39.023 must: (1) measure student performance in relation to the essential knowledge and skills adopted by the State Board of Education under Section 28.002 for the subject area and grade level being assessed; (2) include items that have been evaluated for readability using research-based readability metrics approved by the agency in consultation with the advisory committees established under Section 39.02302; (3) meet industry standards of validity and reliability; (4) comply with applicable requirements under federal law, including peer review requirements; and (5) be designed to report student academic growth, including by: (A) reporting a student's norm-referenced growth based on a comparison of the student's performance on the assessment instrument to the student's performance on a previously administered assessment instrument, as applicable, to measure through-year growth; (B) for an end-of-year or end-of-course assessment instrument, reporting year-over-year growth in student achievement; and (C) for a beginning-of-year or middle-of-year assessment instrument, being adaptive to each student to measure and report individual student growth. (b) Before an assessment instrument adopted or developed under Section 39.023(a) may be administered under that subsection, the assessment instrument must, on the basis of empirical evidence, be determined to be valid and reliable by the advisory committees established under Section 39.02302 or an entity that is, as determined by the commissioner, independent of the agency and of any other entity that developed the assessment instrument. (c) Before an item may be included on an assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023 that was developed by the agency, the item must be reviewed and approved by a committee composed of teachers in this state. The agency shall form each committee by inviting a total of approximately 40 teachers representing each region of this state who teach the grade level and subject area assessed by the items under review to participate in the committee. For each proposed item, at least three-quarters of participating committee members must agree that: (1) the item is aligned with the essential knowledge and skills adopted by the State Board of Education under Section 28.002 for the applicable grade level and subject area; (2) the item is appropriate for the grade level and subject area being assessed and is written at an appropriate reading level for the grade level being assessed; (3) the item is free from bias and factual error; and (4) students in the member's classroom would have an opportunity to learn the content included in the item before the administration of the applicable end-of-year or end-of-course assessment instrument. (d) The writing portion of a reading language arts assessment instrument adopted or developed under Section 39.023 must be designed to assess writing using open-ended questions that are: (1) grade-level appropriate; (2) administered separately; and (3) scored using a process that: (A) involves classroom teachers in setting grading standards; and (B) allows for a school district or open-enrollment charter school to submit student responses for rescoring. (e) For an end-of-year or end-of-course assessment instrument adopted or developed under Section 39.023, the agency shall adopt or develop criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess and report student performance for, at minimum, each performance standard under Section 39.0241. (f) In setting performance levels for a criterion-referenced assessment instrument adopted or developed under Subsection (e), the commissioner shall implement procedures to maintain the validity and reliability of the assessment instrument, including procedures for field testing items approved by the teacher committees des

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• Section 39.0263

  TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR STATE-ADMINISTERED ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS → OR CAMPUS-REQUIRED

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• Section 39.0263, Education Code

  to prepare the student for a corresponding state-administered → or campus-required that is administered to all or most students for a subject or course in a particular grade level and that is not directly linked to instructional material recently covered in the classroom. The term includes an assessment instrument , such as: (1) a practice test; (2) a nationally norm-referenced assessment instrument; (3) a district-created standards assessment; or (4) a vendor-created assessment of state standards or campus : (1) in grades three through eight, a benchmark assessment instrument other than an alternative assessment instrument under Section 39.023(q); and (2) in a grade other than the grades described by Subdivision (1), during a school year before the administration of an end-of-year or end-of-course (c-1) The prohibition prescribed by this section does not apply to an assessment instrument administered during the 2027-2028 or 2028-2029 school year that is under review but not yet approved by the agency for inclusion in the list of approved alternative beginning-of-year and middle-of-year assessment instruments under Section 39.023(q). This subsection expires September 1, 2029.

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• Section 39.0263(c), Education Code

  , or → : (1) or ; (2) ; (3) a diagnostic assessment included in a screening or testing for dyslexia or a related disorder; or (4) an assessment instrument required under state law, including under Chapter 28 or 29

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• Section 39.0301, Education Code

  : (1) ; and (2) include instructions to help mitigate potential student test anxiety (a-2)

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• Section 39.304, Education Code

  (a) prepare a report of the comparisons made under Section 39.034 and provided to the district under Section 39.302 and the report at the beginning of the school year : (1) , including incoming students, ; and (2) all students under Subdivision (1) who were provided instruction by that teacher in the subject for which the assessment instrument was administered under Section 39.023 (b) The report shall indicate whether the student performed satisfactorily or, if the student did not perform satisfactorily, whether the student met the standard for annual improvement under Section 39.034. → the information made available under Section 39.02301(l) for the current and previous school year taught by the teacher

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• Section 39.0511, Education Code

  Sec. 39.0511. WAIVER REQUEST FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY-RELATED REQUIREMENTS. (a) This section applies to a school district campus in which at least 90 percent of the students receive special education services under Subchapter A, Chapter 29. (b) Not later than January 1, 2026, the commissioner shall apply to the United States Department of Education for a waiver of requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. Section 6301 et seq.) related to the rate of participation in the assessment program and high school graduation rates for each school district campus to which this section applies. (c) This section expires September 1, 2027.

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• Section 39.054(b-1), Education Code

  Section 39.052(b)(2)(B) → Subsection (b)(2)(B)

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• Section 39.053, Education Code

  enlist , , and other factors, including: (A) students formerly receiving special education services; (B) students continuously enrolled; and (C) students who are mobile standard for the current school year achievement section. In , the establish and modify standards to ensure is a national leader → and may, if the commissioner determines an indicator otherwise required under this subchapter is not valid or reliable, exclude the indicator from the set of indicators adopted under this section language arts demonstrate military readiness: (a) through verified enlistment or (b) by achieving a passing score, set by the commissioner based on recent passing scores set by the branches of the armed forces, on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Test and successfully completing a Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program; and (c-4) The agency shall study the college, career, and military readiness indicators adopted under Subsection (c) to determine the correlation of each indicator with postsecondary success, including the correlation of industry certifications with wages and available jobs. The value assigned to each indicator must be: (1) based on the strength of the indicator's correlation with successful outcomes; and (2) updated in accordance with Subsection (f-1). (c-5) The agency shall develop a measure of student through-year instructional growth and improvement from the beginning of the school year through the end of the school year for evaluating the performance of campuses serving grade levels in which beginning-of-year and middle-of-year assessment instruments adopted or developed under Section 39.023 are required to be administered. (c-6) Not later than the 2032-2033 school year, the commissioner shall present the measure described by Subsection (c-5) to the accountability advisory committee established under Section 39.0534 to consider the incorporation of the measure into the indicators described by Subsection (c)(2)(A) and in any other domain or indicator the commissioner considers relevant. Not later than July 15, 2031, the agency shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairs of the standing legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over public school accountability a report regarding the measure. This subsection expires September 1, 2033. and may modify standards subchapter in . The increase the rigor by which the commissioner determines the overall performance ratings under Section 39.054(a) , not later than the 15th year after the date the commissioner modifies the performance standards under Subsection (f-1), : (1) ; (2) ensuring ranks nationally the top five states in and on the National Assessment of Educational Progress or its successor assessment (f-1) Beginning with the indicators adopted for the 2027-2028 school year and as required to meet the goals under Subsection (f), the commissioner shall increase the scores needed to achieve performance standards on indicators adopted under this subchapter only every fifth school year unless an indicator adopted under Subsection (c) requires adjustment before that school year to ensure consistency of performance standards. (f-2) Not later than the 30th day before the date the commissioner adopts a rule modifying the performance standards under Subsection (f-1), the commissioner shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairs of the standing legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over public school accountability a report that: (1) identifies the performance standards being modified; (2) includes a summary of the reasons for the modification of the performance standards; (3) includes the expected impact of the modified performance standards on district and campus performance ratings; and (4) includes information regarding the timeline for and a summary of stakeholder engagement during the development of the modified performance standards. (f-3) For each of the two school years preceding a school year the commissioner increases a score under Subsection (f-1), the commissioner shall report, in a manner that can be reviewed by school administrators, the overall performance of school districts and campu

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• Sec. 39.0531. INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION LIST. (a) The agency shall maintain a list of industry certifications that are eligible for purposes of Section 39.053(c)(1)(B)(v). In developing the list, the agency shall consult with the Texas Workforce Commission and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and consider the inventory of industry-recognized certifications developed under Section 312.003, Labor Code, and the credential library established under Section 2308A.007, Government Code. The certifications must: (1) be aligned to a program of study that, according to labor market data, prepares students for high-wage, high-skill, in-demand occupations; (2) allow students to demonstrate mastery of the skills required for occupations within an approved program of study; and (3) be obtained through an assessment of the knowledge and skills provided by or determined by an independent, third-party certifying entity using predetermined standards for knowledge, skills, and competencies. (b) The agency shall review the eligibility of industry certifications under Subsection (a), including whether the programs of study for those certifications still meet the requirements under that subsection: (1) in consultation with: (A) the advisory council established under Chapter 312, Labor Code; (B) the Texas Workforce Commission; and (C) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; and (2) concurrently with the modification of performance standards under Section 39.053(f-1). (c) If, after reviewing an industry certification under Subsection (b), the agency determines the certification is no longer eligible for purposes of Section 39.053(c)(1)(B)(v) and should be removed from the list maintained under Subsection (a), the agency shall post on the agency's Internet website information regarding the removal of the certification not later than two years before the date the agency intends to remove the certification from the list. (d) During the three years following an agency's determination under Subsection (c) that an industry certification is no longer eligible for purposes of Section 39.053(c)(1)(B)(v), a school district may receive the benefit of achievement indicators based on that industry certification for purposes of Section 39.053(c) only for a cohort of students who: (1) were participating in the program of study aligned with that certification during the school year the agency determines the certification is no longer eligible; and (2) earn the certification within the three-year period. Sec. 39.0532. REPORTING OF LOCAL INDICATORS OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. (a) The agency shall collect for reporting purposes only information provided by school districts and open-enrollment charter schools under Subsection (b) regarding local indicators of student engagement and workforce development. (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may, but is not required to, provide to the agency information regarding the following indicators at a district or school campus that serves students in prekindergarten through eighth grade: (1) an indicator that accounts for the percentage of students participating in school-sponsored extracurricular or cocurricular student activities consistent with the findings of the extracurricular and cocurricular student activity indicator study required under Section 39.0533, as that section existed immediately before September 1, 2023; (2) for campuses that serve students in prekindergarten, an indicator that accounts for student participation in full-day prekindergarten programs; (3) for campuses that serve students in kindergarten through fifth grade, an indicator that accounts for teacher completion rates of the literacy achievement academies and mathematics achievement academies established under Sections 21.4552 and 21.4553; (4) an indicator that accounts for students in grades six, seven, and eight who successfully complete a career and technology course approved for purposes of

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• Section 39.054, Education Code

  Not → , each school year, each school year, Except as provided by Subsection (c), not and except as provided by Subsection (a-6) Any interventions or sanctions to which a school district or campus is subject under Chapter 39A shall continue during a period in which the district or campus is assigned an overall performance rating of "Not Rated." (a-6) The commissioner may not assign an overall performance rating of "Not Rated" to all school districts or all campuses on a statewide basis. (a-7) If the agency makes changes to the assessment program under Section 39.022 for assessment instruments administered under this subchapter that require new standards for issuing performance ratings under this section, the agency must conduct a performance comparison analysis between the program as changed and the preceding program to establish roughly comparable standards for issuing performance ratings. (c) The commissioner shall make the information under Subsection (a-3) available as soon as reasonably possible in years in which the standards are modified or recalibrated or in which a new assessment instrument is offered.

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• Section 39.0541, Education Code

  The during a school year → (a) Subject to Subsection (b), the issuing (b) If the commissioner does not initially adopt performance standards by the July 15 immediately preceding a school year, district and campus performance ratings for that school year shall be based on the performance standards in effect for the preceding school year.

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• Section 39.0542(a), Education Code

  Each school → Not later than July 15 of each standards adopted under Sections 39.0241 and 39.053(f) for the following school year and the

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• Section 39.0544, Education Code

  (f) From money appropriated or otherwise available for the purpose, the agency shall establish a grant program to assist at least one school district in each education service center region in developing a local accountability plan that complies with the requirements of this section.

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• Section 39.201(a), Education Code

  Not later than August 8 of each year, the 39.054(a) → The concurrently with the assignment of performance ratings under Section 39.054 39.054

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• Section 39, Education Code

  (3) → (3) operation of the campus by an entity with which the school district contracts under Section 11.174; (4)

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• Section 39, Education Code

  Following may prepare for the implementation of → Subject to Section 39A.110(a), following shall implement

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• Section 39, Education Code

  for the school year following board of trustees of the may: (1) ; (2) implement a modified version of the campus turnaround plan; or (3) withdraw the campus turnaround plan → subsequent to is no longer required to

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• Section 39, Education Code

  Sec. 39A.908. INTERVENTIONS AND SANCTIONS WHILE ASSIGNMENT OF PERFORMANCE RATINGS ENJOINED. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, during a period in which the agency is enjoined from assigning performance ratings to a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or district or school campus, any previously imposed interventions or sanctions to which the district, school, or campus is subject shall continue throughout that period. (b) As soon as practicable after the dissolution of an injunction described by Subsection (a), the agency shall: (1) assign performance ratings for each school year and to each school district, open-enrollment charter school, and district or school campus for which the agency was enjoined from assigning performance ratings; and (2) as applicable, impose any appropriate interventions or sanctions authorized under this chapter based on the ratings assigned under Subdivision (1). (c) Notwithstanding any other law, if the agency is permanently enjoined from assigning performance ratings to a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or district or school campus for a school year, the agency shall consider the district, school, or campus to have received a "Not Rated" rating for that school year for purposes of: (1) calculating consecutive years of performance; and (2) determining whether to impose an intervention or sanction authorized under this chapter. (d) To ensure the expeditious implementation of interventions or sanctions under this chapter, the agency may modify or waive a deadline or time frame required by law or agency rule applicable to the assignment of performance ratings for a school year for which the agency was enjoined from assigning performance ratings. (e) Except as provided by Subsection (f), the agency shall impose an intervention or sanction described by Subsection (b)(2) or (c)(2) as required by law unless the intervention or sanction, as determined by the commissioner: (1) has been superseded by a subsequent intervention or sanction; or (2) may be removed based on the subsequent performance of a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or district or school campus. (f) The commissioner shall impose an intervention described by Section 12.115(c), 39A.004, or 39A.111, as applicable, on a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or district or school campus if the district, school, or campus would have been subject to commissioner action under the applicable section based on the performance rating of the district, school, or campus for a school year for which the agency was enjoined from assigning performance ratings, regardless of the performance of the district, school, or campus in a subsequent school year. (g) Except as provided by Subsection (h), the commissioner shall revoke a charter holder's charter for an open-enrollment charter school for which the charter holder received a charter renewal based on the absence of a performance rating for a school year for which the agency was enjoined from assigning a performance rating if, after the assignment of performance ratings for that year, the charter would not have been renewed under Section 12.1141(d), regardless of the performance of the school in a subsequent school year. (h) Subsection (g) does not apply to a charter holder for which the agency has renewed the charter based on the charter holder entering into and meeting the requirements of a performance agreement with the agency.

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• Section 312.003(a), Labor Code

  and → ; and (3) meet the requirements of Section 39.0531(a), Education Code

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• Section 7.057(d), Education Code

  under this section

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• Section 39.001

  ; ACTION FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT

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• Section 39.001, Education Code

  (c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school must bring an action for declaratory judgment under Section 2001.038, Government Code, challenging the validity or applicability of a rule adopted under this chapter or Chapter 39A not later than six months after the date the rule is adopted.

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• Section 39.009, Education Code

  Sec. 39.009. COMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN CHAPTER REQUIREMENTS; LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT. (a) Failure to comply with a requirement of Subchapter B, C, or D: (1) does not prevent: (A) the administration of a statewide assessment instrument required under Subchapter B; or (B) the assignment of performance ratings under Section 39.054; and (2) may not be the basis of a challenge to: (A) a performance rating assigned under Section 39.054; or (B) an intervention or sanction imposed under this chapter or Chapter 39A. (b) Each standing legislative committee with primary jurisdiction over primary and secondary education shall establish a process to receive information regarding a failure to comply with a requirement of Subchapter B, C, or D and may require the agency to provide justification for that failure. The agency must notify each committee if the agency is aware that the commissioner or agency has failed to meet a deadline or other requirement under Subchapter B, C, or D.

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• Section 39.151(e), Education Code

  if had an opportunity to challenge the decision → on any basis, including a lack of commissioner or agency authority, unless exhausted the district's or school's remedies

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• Section 45.105(c-1), Education Code

  Funds described by Subsection (c) arising out of a decision, order, or determination that is final and unappealable under a provision of this code a rule adopted under this code and that results in a final and unappealable decision, order, or determination → Notwithstanding any other law, federal, state, or local funding, including funding under Chapters 46, 48, and 49, , including an action or proceeding that includes a claim of ultra vires conduct by Section 2001.038, Government Code

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• Section 7.056(e), Education Code

  or participation in a University Interscholastic League area, regional, or state competition under Section 33.0812

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• Section 11.185(b), Education Code

  language arts

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• Section 21.4552(c), Education Code

  language arts

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• an interim 39.023(o) interim → language arts a beginning-of-year or middle-of-year or developed 39.023 beginning-of-year or middle-of-year

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• language arts or developed

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• Section 28.023(c), Education Code

  or developed

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• Section 29.056(g), Education Code

  language arts

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• Section 29.1543(a), Education Code

  language arts

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• in paper format : (1) for a fall administration of an assessment instrument, not later than September 15 of the school year in which the assessment instrument will be administered; and (2) for a spring administration of an assessment instrument, not later than December 1 of the school year in which the assessment instrument will be administered → and notwithstanding Section 39.023 in paper format a nonadaptive assessment instrument adopted or developed by the agency as a substitute for not later than a reasonable date as determined by the agency, which must be not later than the 60th day before the date the applicable assessment administration schedule window under Section 39.02301(i) closes

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• Section 39.0236, Education Code

  (e) The agency shall implement the pilot program established under this section beginning with the 2028-2029 school year. This subsection expires September 1, 2029.

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Action History

1. August 12, 2025

   Reported engrossed

2. August 12, 2025

   Record vote

3. August 12, 2025

   Passed

4. August 12, 2025

   Read 3rd time

5. August 12, 2025

   Record vote

6. August 12, 2025

   Three day rule suspended

7. August 12, 2025

   Record vote

8. August 12, 2025

   Passed to engrossment as amended

9. August 12, 2025

   Vote recorded in Journal

10. August 12, 2025

    Amended

11. August 12, 2025

    Amendment(s) offered

12. August 12, 2025

    Vote recorded in Journal

13. August 12, 2025

    Amended

14. August 12, 2025

    Amendment(s) offered

15. August 12, 2025

    Read 2nd time

16. August 12, 2025

    Laid before the Senate

17. August 12, 2025

    Co-author authorized

18. August 06, 2025

    Committee report printed and distributed

19. August 06, 2025

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

20. August 06, 2025

    Vote taken in committee

21. August 06, 2025

    Testimony taken in committee

22. August 06, 2025

    Considered in public hearing

23. August 06, 2025

    Posting rule suspended

24. August 06, 2025

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

25. August 04, 2025

    Referred to Education K-16

26. August 04, 2025

    Read first time

27. August 04, 2025

    Filed

28. August 04, 2025

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

Sponsors

• Charles Schwertner · Cosponsor
• Charles Perry · Cosponsor
• Tan Parker · Cosponsor
• Lois Kolkhorst · Cosponsor
• Brian Birdwell · Cosponsor
• Kevin Sparks · Primary
• Angela Paxton · Primary
• Mayes Middleton · Primary
• Bryan Hughes · Primary
• Joan Huffman · Primary
• Adam Hinojosa · Primary
• Bob Hall · Primary
• Brent Hagenbuch · Primary
• Donna Campbell · Primary
• César Blanco · Primary
• Paul Bettencourt · Primary
• Brandon Creighton · Primary
• Phil King · Primary
• Pete Flores · Cosponsor

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