Bill Text: TX SB436 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the operation of the special education continuing advisory committee.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB436 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB436-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 436 | ||
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| relating to the operation of the special education continuing | ||
| advisory committee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 29.006, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Committee meetings must be conducted in compliance with | ||
| Chapter 551, Government Code. | ||
| (e) The committee shall provide a procedure for members of | ||
| the public to speak at committee meetings. The procedure may not | ||
| require a member of the public to register to speak earlier than the | ||
| day of the meeting. | ||
| (f) The agency must post on the agency's Internet website: | ||
| (1) contact information for the committee, including | ||
| an e-mail address; | ||
| (2) notice of each open meeting of the committee; | ||
| (3) minutes of each open meeting of the committee; and | ||
| (4) guidance concerning how to submit public comments | ||
| to the committee. | ||
| (g) The committee shall develop a policy to encourage public | ||
| participation with the committee. | ||
| (h) Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the | ||
| committee shall submit a report to the legislature with recommended | ||
| changes to state law and agency rules relating to special | ||
| education. The committee shall include the committee's current | ||
| policy on encouraging public participation, as required by | ||
| Subsection (g), in the report. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 29.006(d), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to an open meeting of the special education | ||
| continuing advisory committee held on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 436 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 9, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 436 passed the House on | ||
| May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
