HOUSE BILL REPORT

                  SB 5178

                      As Passed House:

                        April 8, 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:  3/29/99, 3/31/99 [DP].

Floor Activity:

Passed House:  4/8/99, 96-0.

                 Brief Summary of Bill

$Two statutory references to the fourth grade norm-referenced achievement test are corrected to reflect the change from the fourth grade to the third grade.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Majority Report:  Do pass.  Signed by 12 members:  Representatives Quall, Democratic Co-Chair; Talcott, Republican Co-Chair; Haigh, Democratic Vice Chair; Schindler, Republican Vice Chair; Carlson; Cox; Keiser; Rockefeller; Santos; D. Schmidt; Schual-Berke and Stensen.

Staff:  Susan Morrissey (786-7111).

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 statutory references to the fourth grade norm-referenced achievement 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:  None.