Bill Text: TX HB2831 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the terminology used to refer to certain disabilities in determining eligibility for special education services in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-14 - Referred to Public Education [HB2831 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2831-Introduced.html
88R11912 ANG-D | ||
By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 2831 |
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relating to the terminology used to refer to certain disabilities | ||
in determining eligibility for special education services in public | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.003, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) A student is eligible to participate in a school | ||
district's special education program if the student: | ||
(1) is not more than 21 years of age and has a visual or | ||
auditory impairment that prevents the student from being adequately | ||
or safely educated in public school without the provision of | ||
special services; or | ||
(2) is at least three but not more than 21 years of age | ||
and has one or more of the following disabilities that prevents the | ||
student from being adequately or safely educated in public school | ||
without the provision of special services: | ||
(A) physical disability; | ||
(B) intellectual or developmental disability; | ||
(C) emotional dysregulation [ |
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(D) learning disability; | ||
(E) autism; | ||
(F) speech disability; or | ||
(G) traumatic brain injury. | ||
(c) In this section, "emotional dysregulation" has the | ||
meaning assigned to the term "emotional disturbance" by 34 C.F.R. | ||
Section 300.8(c)(4). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |