Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the following:

Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.

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This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, clarifies that a school administrative unit is required to excuse a student from standardized testing only if doing so would not make the school administrative unit out of compliance with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act and requires the Department of Education to report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs if the opt-out provision of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act is repealed or substantially amended by federal law.

This amendment also removes from the bill the requirement that school administrative units provide students excused from the assessment with an educational activity and the requirement that the Department of Education develop a form and that the department and school administrative units post the form on their publicly accessible websites and clarifies that educators may inform students and parents of the right to opt out.