| Under the dome Riding for change 04/10/2001 From staff and wire reports TAAS testing: Bill endorsed to aid immigrant students
The Legislature has given final approval to a bill that gives students who recently immigrated to the United States up to two extra years to learn English before they have to take the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test.
The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry by the House and Senate, changes a law that gives a one-year test exemption to students who have immigrated within the last 12 months.
Those affected are "unschooled" immigrant students and children whose primary language cannot be tested in Texas schools.
Health: Change in oversight of Medicaid studied
The state's Medicaid program would be moved from the Department of Health to the Health and Human Services Commission under a bill backed by a Senate panel. Eliminating repetitive paperwork, streamlining staff and budget control are the targets.
On the record
"The creation of humans should be left to the real experts: moms and dads."
– Sen. Jane Nelson on her bill to ban human cloning in Texas, approved by committee for full Senate consideration
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