Bill Text: TX HB2182 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the required completion date of a report concerning an initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB2182 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2182-Introduced.html

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2013S0438-1 02/27/13
By: Flynn H.B. No. 2182

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required completion date of a report concerning an
initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education
services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 29.004, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) A written report of a full individual and initial
evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services
shall be completed not later than the 60th school [calendar] day
following the date on which the school district, in accordance with
20 U.S.C. Section 1414(a), as amended, receives written consent for
the evaluation, signed by the student's parent or legal guardian.
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.