Bill Text: TX HB590 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to determining a child's eligibility for a school district's special education program on the basis of a visual impairment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB590 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB590-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 590 | ||
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| relating to determining a child's eligibility for a school | ||
| district's special education program on the basis of a visual | ||
| impairment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 30.002, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c-1) and (c-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) To implement Subsection (c)(1) and to determine a | ||
| child's eligibility for a school district's special education | ||
| program on the basis of a visual impairment, the full individual and | ||
| initial evaluation of the student required by Section 29.004 must, | ||
| in accordance with commissioner rule: | ||
| (1) include an orientation and mobility evaluation | ||
| conducted: | ||
| (A) by a person who is appropriately certified as | ||
| an orientation and mobility specialist, as determined under | ||
| commissioner rule; and | ||
| (B) in a variety of lighting conditions and in a | ||
| variety of settings, including in the student's home, school, and | ||
| community and in settings unfamiliar to the student; and | ||
| (2) provide for a person who is appropriately | ||
| certified as an orientation and mobility specialist to participate, | ||
| as part of a multidisciplinary team, in evaluating data on which the | ||
| determination of the child's eligibility is based. | ||
| (c-2) The scope of any reevaluation by a school district of | ||
| a student who has been determined, after the full individual and | ||
| initial evaluation, to be eligible for the district's special | ||
| education program on the basis of a visual impairment shall be | ||
| determined, in accordance with 34 C.F.R. Sections 300.122 and | ||
| 300.303 through 300.311, by a multidisciplinary team that includes, | ||
| as provided by commissioner rule, a person described by Subsection | ||
| (c-1)(1)(A). | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than January 1, 2014, the | ||
| commissioner of education shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| Sections 30.002(c-1) and (c-2), Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than the beginning of the 2014-2015 school | ||
| year, Sections 30.002(c-1) and (c-2), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, shall be implemented. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 590 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 80, Nays 63, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 590 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
