SOL assessments and related assessment methods; development, administration, scoring, and release.

Updated the header to reflect two Senate sponsors (Senators VanValkenburg and Suetterlein) and added the bill number.

Corrected the numbering sequence in the list of assessment methods, renumbering items 3 through 8 to 4 through 9.

Standardized the formatting of legal citations throughout the text to ensure consistency.

Added a new provision requiring the Department of Education to include the bill's new assessment subsections in future requests for proposals for a new assessment vendor, with a cost report due by October 1, 2026.

Extended the deadline for the Board of Education to develop and distribute best practices for grading mandatory and permissive local alternative assessments to September 1, 2026.

Establishes a 'through-year' growth assessment system for reading and math in grades 3-8, requiring at least one beginning, mid, and end-of-year test instead of just one end-of-year test.

Allows local school boards to create and administer 'permissive local alternative assessments' for subjects where state tests are not mandatory, provided they follow strict security and grading guidelines.

Updates the timing for when new assessment rules take effect, shifting from a contract award date to the second full school year after a pilot implementation period.

Revises the frequency of assessments to limit them to one per academic quarter or four per year to maximize instructional time, with specific exceptions for performance assessments.

Mandates that local alternative assessments must include open-ended questions and long-form writing tasks to measure critical thinking and logic.

Clarifies that teachers cannot grade assessments for students they taught in the same subject area during the current school year to ensure fairness.

Adds a delay provision stating that specific new assessment requirements (subsections K and L) will not become effective unless they are reenacted in the 2027 legislative session.

The document format changed from a draft legislative proposal (Engrossed) to the final official version (Enrolled), which includes standard legal formatting, chapter numbers, and approval stamps, but contains no changes to the bill's substantive provisions.