Bill Text: TX HB1853 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to a behavior improvement plan or a behavior intervention plan adopted for certain students with an individualized education program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1853 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1853-Comm_Sub.html

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83R24986 CAE-F
By: Ratliff H.B. No. 1853
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1853:
By: King of Hemphill C.S.H.B. No. 1853

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a behavior improvement plan or a behavior intervention
plan adopted for certain students with an individualized education
program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.005, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) The committee may determine that a behavior improvement
plan or a behavior intervention plan is appropriate for a student
for whom the committee has developed an individualized education
program. If the committee makes that determination, the behavior
improvement plan or the behavior intervention plan shall be
included as part of the student's individualized education program
and provided to each teacher with responsibility for educating the
student.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2013.