Bill Text: TX HB1807 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to maintain an inventory of postsecondary educational programs and services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1807 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1807-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1807 | ||
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| relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| to maintain an inventory of postsecondary educational programs and | ||
| services for persons with intellectual and developmental | ||
| disabilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0663 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0663. INVENTORY OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL | ||
| PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND | ||
| DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. (a) The board shall maintain an | ||
| inventory of all postsecondary educational programs and services | ||
| provided for persons with intellectual and developmental | ||
| disabilities by institutions of higher education. | ||
| (b) The board shall: | ||
| (1) post the inventory on the board's Internet website | ||
| in an easily identifiable and accessible location; | ||
| (2) submit the inventory to the Texas Education Agency | ||
| for inclusion in the transition and employment guide under Section | ||
| 29.0112; and | ||
| (3) update the inventory at least once every two | ||
| years. | ||
| (c) At times prescribed by the board, each institution of | ||
| higher education shall report to the board all programs and | ||
| services described by Subsection (a) provided by that institution. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 29.0112(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The transition and employment guide must contain | ||
| information specific to this state regarding: | ||
| (1) transition services; | ||
| (2) employment and supported employment services; | ||
| (3) social security programs; | ||
| (4) community and long-term services and support; | ||
| (5) postsecondary educational programs and services, | ||
| including the inventory maintained by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board under Section 61.0663; | ||
| (6) information sharing with health and human services | ||
| agencies and providers; | ||
| (7) guardianship and alternatives to guardianship; | ||
| (8) self-advocacy, person-directed planning, and | ||
| self-determination; and | ||
| (9) contact information for all relevant state | ||
| agencies. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| shall compile the inventory required by Section 61.0663, Education | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, not later than September 1, 2016. The | ||
| Texas Education Agency shall comply with Section 29.0112(b)(5), | ||
| Education Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as practicable after | ||
| the inventory is available. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1807 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 5, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1807 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
