HB 2312 requires the State Board for Educator Certification to establish bifurcated supplemental certification requirements for bilingual education teachers. The bill mandates that bilingual education certifications be split into two categories: one for teaching students in sixth grade and below and another for seventh through twelfth grade. Additionally, the bill changes the retesting process for the Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test (BTLPT), allowing candidates who fail specific domains to retake only those sections instead of the entire exam. It also eliminates the lesson plan component for candidates retaking the test in certain cases. The goal of the legislation is to improve the certification process and increase the number of qualified bilingual educators in Texas schools​.