Requires the Texas School Safety Center to report to TEA if a school district fails to comply with certain school safety requirements, such as implementation of a multihazard plan, and creation of a school safety and security committee. TEA can impose an administrative penalty for noncompliance in an amount no greater than the superintendent's annual salary.

Requires the secretary of state to consult with TEA regarding the number of voter registration applications to provide to high schools, and to provide them once each fall and spring semester in the number determined through the consultation with TEA.

Increases the state's contribution to active employee health insurance from $75/mo to $150/mo.

Allows a parent of a student with significant cognitive disabilities to request that their student be exempted from the alternative assessment instrument. The student's ARD committee will determine if the student should be exempted. If so, the student must be assessed in the applicable subject using an alternative assessment method developed under a process newly outlined in the bill. The commissioner, with stakeholder and parent input, must develop for each applicable subject an alternative assessment method. The criteria must include progress on the goals identified in the student's IEP...

Prohibits political subdivisions from using public funds to hire a lobbyist or to pay a nonprofit state organization that primarily represents political subdivision and hires or contracts with a lobbyist. If the subdivision engages in the prohibited activity, a taxpayer or resident of the subdivision is entitled to injunctive relief to prevent further such activity. Allows county judges and county commissioners to serve on the governing body of such an organization but public funds cannot be spent to serve or otherwise to join or be a member of the organization.

Creates a student threat assessment database for students determined by a threat assessment team to be a serious risk to themselves or others. Requires that a threat assessment team's assessment of a student be completed within 30 days of the beginning of the assessment. No more than 10 days after a determination that a student poses serious risk of violence to himself or others, the team must enter the assessment into the database and make a notation in the student's record that the student is included in the database.

Deletes end-of-course assessments and the 8th grade social studies assessment. Requires use of the TSI, SAT, ACT, PSAT, ACT-Plan or other nationally recognized, norm-referenced assessment for any federally required secondary level assessments. Includes a provision ensuring that if federal requirements are reduced, the SBOE must adopt rules reducing state assessments accordingly.