PROHIBITION ON FEDERALLY SPONSORED TESTING.

SEC. 8026. PROHIBITION ON FEDERALLY SPONSORED TESTING. Section 8529, as redesignated by section 8001 of this Act, is amended to read as follows:“SEC. 8529. PROHIBITION ON FEDERALLY SPONSORED TESTING.“(a) General Prohibition.—Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law and except as provided in subsection (b), no funds provided under this Act to the Secretary or to the recipient of any award may be used to develop, incentivize, pilot test, field test, implement, administer, or distribute any federally sponsored national test in reading, mathematics, or any other subject, unless specifically and explicitly authorized by law, including any assessment or testing materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative or any other academic standards common to a significant number of States.129 STAT. 2116“(b) Exceptions.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to international comparative assessments developed under the authority of section 153(a)(6) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9543(a)(6)) and administered to only a representative sample of pupils in the United States and in foreign nations.” .