Bill Text: TX HB3025 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain procedures regarding a dispute relating to special education services provided by a school district or open-enrollment charter school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3025 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3025-Introduced.html
86R11634 MM-F | ||
By: Talarico | H.B. No. 3025 |
|
||
|
||
relating to certain procedures regarding a dispute relating to | ||
special education services provided by a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.0043 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.0043. DISPUTE REGARDING REFERRAL FOR EVALUATION. | ||
If a parent of a student who is eligible for or who is suspected as | ||
being eligible for special education services disputes a school | ||
district's or open-enrollment charter school's referral of the | ||
student for evaluation under Section 29.004, the district or school | ||
may provide to the parent a facilitated meeting with a school | ||
counselor regarding the potential advantages, disadvantages, | ||
benefits, and concerns of accepting or declining the evaluation on | ||
behalf of the student. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 29.019(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) If a school district chooses to offer individualized | ||
education program facilitation as an alternative dispute | ||
resolution method: | ||
(1) the district may determine whether to use | ||
independent contractors, district employees, or other qualified | ||
individuals as facilitators; | ||
(2) the information provided by the district under | ||
this section must include a description of any applicable | ||
procedures for requesting the facilitation; [ |
||
(3) the facilitation must be provided at no cost to a | ||
parent; and | ||
(4) a parent may request the facilitation not later | ||
than the ninth calendar day following the date on which the dispute | ||
arose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2019. |