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SENATE BILL NO. 538 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on Education and Health on February 4, 2016) (Patrons Prior to Substitute--Senators Surovell and Barker [SB 548]) A BILL to require the Board of Education to consider certain alternative assessments for students who are English language learners.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Board of Education shall consider assessments aligned to the Standards of Learning that are structured and formatted in a way that measures the content knowledge of students who are English language learners and that may be administered to such students as Board of Education-approved alternatives to Standards of Learning end-of-course English reading assessments.