Bill Text: TX HB3147 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3147 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to transition services for public school students enrolled in special education programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB3147 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3147-Introduced.html

	84R11246 MEW-D

	By: González	H.B. No. 3147



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to transition services for public school students enrolled
	in special education programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 29.011, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
	(a-1) In adopting procedures for compliance with federal
	requirements under Subsection (a), the commissioner shall require
	that a student's individualized education program include:
	(1) appropriate measurable postsecondary goals based
	on age-appropriate transition assessments related to training,
	education, employment, and, as appropriate, independent living
	skills; and
	(2) the transition services, including courses of
	study, needed to assist the student in reaching the student's
	postsecondary goals.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
	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, 2015.