Bill Text: TX HB2256 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to creating a bilingual special education certification to teach students of limited English proficiency with disabilities.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2256-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2256 |
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relating to creating a bilingual special education certification to | ||
teach students of limited English proficiency with disabilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.04891 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.04891. BILINGUAL SPECIAL EDUCATION CERTIFICATION. | ||
(a) In this section, "limited English proficiency" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 29.052. | ||
(b) To ensure that there are teachers with special training | ||
in providing instruction to students of limited English proficiency | ||
with disabilities, the board shall establish a bilingual special | ||
education certificate. | ||
(c) To be eligible for a certificate established under this | ||
section, a person must: | ||
(1) satisfactorily complete the coursework for that | ||
certificate in an educator preparation program, including a | ||
skills-based course of instruction on providing instruction to | ||
students of limited English proficiency with disabilities, which | ||
must include instruction on: | ||
(A) the foundations of bilingual, multicultural, | ||
and second language special education; | ||
(B) providing individualized education programs | ||
for students of limited English proficiency with disabilities; | ||
(C) providing assessment of students of limited | ||
English proficiency with and without disabilities; | ||
(D) developing teaching methods to recognize the | ||
intellectual, developmental, and emotional needs of students in | ||
dual language and transitional bilingual education settings; | ||
(E) teaching fundamental academic skills, | ||
including reading, writing, and mathematics, to students of limited | ||
English proficiency; and | ||
(F) creating partnerships with families and | ||
school professionals; | ||
(2) perform satisfactorily on a bilingual special | ||
education certificate examination prescribed by the board; and | ||
(3) satisfy any other requirements prescribed by the | ||
board. | ||
SECTION 2. The State Board for Educator Certification shall | ||
propose rules: | ||
(1) establishing requirements and prescribing an | ||
examination for a bilingual special education certificate as | ||
required by Section 21.04891, Education Code, as added by this Act; | ||
and | ||
(2) establishing standards to govern the approval and | ||
renewal of approval of educator preparation programs for bilingual | ||
special education certification. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2256 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2021, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 30, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2256 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 32, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2256 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |