BILL NUMBER: AB 2122	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lara

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 99161.5 to the Education Code, relating to
standardized testing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2122, as introduced, Lara. Standardized testing:
accommodations.
   Existing law imposes various requirements on a test sponsor or
test agency, as defined, with respect to the administration of
standardized tests for purposes of postsecondary education.
   Existing law provides that a test sponsor that intentionally
violates these provisions is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed
$750 for each violation.
   This bill would require the test sponsor of the Law School
Admission Test to provide reasonable accommodation to a disabled test
subject, as specified. The bill would also require the process for
determining whether to grant a reasonable accommodation to be made
public and the outcome of the request to be conveyed to the requester
within a reasonable amount of time. The bill would also require that
test sponsor to establish a timely appeals process when a request is
denied. The bill would also prohibit that test sponsor from
notifying a test score recipient, as defined, that the score of any
test subject was obtained by a subject who received accommodations. A
violation of these requirements would subject a test sponsor to the
above civil penalty.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 99161.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   99161.5.  (a) (1) The test sponsor of the Law School Admission
Test shall provide reasonable accommodations to a disabled test
subject who makes a timely request.
   (2) The process for determining whether to grant a reasonable
accommodation under paragraph (1) shall be made public, and the
decision whether or not to approve a request for an accommodation
shall be conveyed to the requester within a reasonable amount of
time.
   (3) The test sponsor of the Law School Admission Test shall
establish a timely appeals process for a test taker who has been
denied an accommodation request.
   (b) Whenever a test subject has received formal testing
accommodations from a postsecondary educational institution, the test
sponsor of the Law School Admission Test shall provide
accommodations to that test subject.
   (c) The test sponsor of the Law School Admission Test shall not
notify a test score recipient that the score of any test subject was
obtained by a subject who received accommodations under paragraph (1)
of subdivision (a).