HB 818 — STUDENT/ASSESSMENT: Provides relative to student assessments (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)

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818 BY REPRESENTATIVEREPRESENTATIVES RISER STUDENT/ASSESSMENT:AND CHASSION AN ACT ToenactR.S.17:24.4(F)(7)(c)through(i)and406.9(B)(15),relativetostudentassessments;

Provides relative to student assessments AN ACT ToenactR.S.17:24.4(F)(7)(c)through(i)and406.9(B)(15),relativetostudentassessments;

17:24.4(F)(7)(c) through (i) and 406.9(B)(15) areherebyenactedtoareherebyenacted to read as follows:

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818 ENROLLED (ii) Thescheduleshallincludeonlythoseassessmentsandscreenersrequired by federal law, state law, or rules of the state board and shall exclude assessments required solely by a public school governing authority.

(ii) No laterthanlater than ten business days afterafterthe the department posts or updates the schedule pursuant to Subparagraph (c) of this Paragraph, each public school governing authority shall post on the website all of the following:

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818 ENROLLED (aa) A direct hyperlink to the most recent statewide mandated assessments schedule as posted on the department's website.

(bb) A portable document format copy of the most recent statewide mandatedassessmentsschedule,whichmandated shallassessmentsschedule,whichshall bebetheportabledocument theportabledocumentformatmadeformat made available by the department or a portable document format that is identical in content.

(e)(i) The department shall prescribeprescribea a uniform template for the schedule as providedprovidedbySubparagraph bySubparagraph(d) (d)ofthisof Paragraph,includingthis plain-languageParagraph, labelsincluding forplain-languagelabelsfor delivery method.

the grade level or student groupassessed;thesubjectorcontentarea,ifapplicable;thegroupassessed;thesubjectorcontent typearea,if ofapplicable;thetypeofassessment;the assessment;the delivery method;

the estimated total minutes per student per school year for the Page 3 of 76 CODING:

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818 ENROLLED assessment;

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818 ENROLLED (ii) Theannuallocalassessmentreviewreportshalladdress,foreachlocally adopted or required benchmark, interim assessment, screener, progress-monitoring assessment,andotherlocallyrequiredassessmentlisted ontheschedulerequiredby Subparagraph (d) of this Paragraph, all of the following:

* * * (15) To receive from the public school governing authority the statewide mandated assessments schedule and the schedule of all locally adopted or required benchmarks, interim assessments, screeners, progress-monitoring assessments, and other locally required assessments applicable to the child's grade level, course enrollment, and student group, if applicable, no later than ten business days after suchschedulesarepostedpursuanttoR.S.17:24.4(F)(7),andtobenotifiedbyemail Pageas 5soon as possible of 7any CODING:revisions to such schedules.

Such schedules shall be Page 5 of 6 CODING:

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818 asENROLLED soonposted asto possiblethe ofschool's anywebsite revisionsand toshall suchinclude, schedules.at a minimum, the information required pursuant to R.S.

Such schedules shall be posted to the school's website and shall include, at a minimum, the information required pursuant to R.S.

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1:13(B) and 24:177(E)] HB 818 Engrossed 2026 Regular Session Riser Abstract:

Requires annual posting of assessments schedules.

Proposed law requires the following, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year and for each school year thereafter:

(1) The state Dept.

of Education (DOE) to post a statewide mandated assessments schedule on its website.

(2) Eachpublicschoolgoverningauthorityto post a link to thescheduleprovidedforin (1) above on its website, along with a portable document format schedule of all locally adopted or required benchmarks, interim assessments, screeners, progress- monitoring assessments, and other locally required assessments for administration during that school year.

(3) Eachpublicschoolgoverningauthoritytoprepareanannuallocalassessmentreview report and post the report on its website no later than November first of each school year.

Requiresthereporttoaddress,foreachlocallyadoptedorrequiredbenchmark, interim assessment, screener, progress-monitoring assessment, and other locally required assessment all of the following:

(a) The time required to administer the assessment.

(b) The purpose of the assessment.

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