TITLE: Relating to parental rights regarding the use of machine grading to score certain portions of assessment instruments administered to public school students in this state.

SUMMARY: Relating to parental rights regarding the use of machine grading to score certain portions of assessment instruments administered to public school students in this state.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to parental rights regarding the use of machine grading to score certain portions of assessment instruments administered to public school students in this state. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 39.023, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (q) and (r) to read as follows: (q) The agency shall provide written notice to a student's parent if machine grading, including artificial intelligence or computer software, is used to score a constructed response provided by a student as part of an assessment instrument administered under this section. The notice must include information regarding the parent's right to request rescoring of the constructed response as provided by Subsection (r). (r) On written request by a parent of a student who failed to perform satisfactorily on an assessment instrument in which machine grading was used to score the constructed response as described by Subsection (q), that portion of the student's assessment instrument must be rescored using a traditional scoring method that does not include machine grading, at no cost to the parent. SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. SECTION 3. 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.