SENATE BILL REPORT

                   SB 5178

               As Passed Senate, March 10, 1999

Title:  An act relating to correcting references to the third grade standardized achievement test.

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

Sponsors:  Senators McAuliffe, Winsley and Rasmussen.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Education:  2/11/99, 2/17/99 [DP].

Passed Senate, 3/10/99, 47-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators McAuliffe, Chair; Eide, Vice Chair; Bauer, Benton, Brown, Goings, Hochstatter, Kohl‑Welles, Rasmussen and Sellar.

Staff:  Susan Mielke (786-7422)

Background:  In 1998, the Legislature passed 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 of Bill:  Two references to the fourth grade test are corrected to reflect the change from the fourth grade to the third grade.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  No one.