WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 2 REQUIREMENT TYPES
How Is This Bill Enforced
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(q) 1 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).
New subsection (q) imposes a written-notice obligation on the Texas Education Agency whenever machine grading — defined to include artificial intelligence or computer software — is used to score a student's constructed response on a state assessment instrument. The notice must inform the parent that machine grading was used and advise them of their right to request human rescoring under subsection (r). This is a transparency obligation directed at a government agency rather than a private-sector developer or deployer.
(r) 2 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.
New subsection (r) creates a right for parents to request that a machine-graded constructed response be rescored by a human using a traditional scoring method when the student failed to perform satisfactorily. The rescoring must be provided at no cost to the parent. This operates as a human-review override right triggered by an adverse automated outcome — the student's unsatisfactory performance — and is structurally similar to the right to human review of automated decisions found in broader AI accountability frameworks, although it is narrowly scoped to standardized test scoring.
This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.
Section 2 establishes that the bill's requirements apply beginning with the 2025–2026 school year. This sets the operative scope without creating an independent compliance obligation.
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. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
Section 3 provides a two-tier effective date: the bill takes effect immediately if it receives a two-thirds vote in both chambers, or on September 1, 2025, if it does not. This is a standard Texas immediate-effect clause and creates no independent compliance obligation.