Bill Text: TX HB3830 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a school district's duty to notify certain parents or guardians of a program providing students with reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB3830 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3830-Introduced.html

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88R12666 CXP-D
By: Lopez of Cameron H.B. No. 3830

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a school district's duty to notify certain parents or
guardians of a program providing students with reading disabilities
the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.006(g-2), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(g-2) In accordance with a notification program developed
by the commissioner by rule, a school district shall notify the
parent or guardian of each student determined, on the basis of a
screening under Section 38.003 or other basis, to have a reading
disability or dyslexia or a related disorder[, or determined, on
the basis of reading instrument results, to be at risk for dyslexia
or other reading difficulties,] of the program maintained by the
Texas State Library and Archives Commission providing students with
reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of
charge.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
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, 2023.