FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 5178

                           C 78 L 99

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Correcting references to the third grade standardized achievement test.

Sponsors:  Senators McAuliffe, Winsley and Rasmussen.

Senate Committee on Education

House Committee on Education

Background:  In 1998, the Legislature passed Second Substitute House Bill 2849 which, among other things, changed the statewide norm-referenced standardized achievement test in the fourth grade to a third grade test.

Summary:  Two references to the fourth grade test are corrected to reflect the change from the fourth grade to the third grade.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 47 0

House     96 0

Effective:  July 25, 1999