Bill Text: TX SB778 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of professional staff who educate students with disabilities on district-level and campus-level planning and decision-making committees.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB778-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 778 | ||
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| relating to the inclusion of professional staff who educate | ||
| students with disabilities on district-level and campus-level | ||
| planning and decision-making committees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (e), Section 11.251, | ||
| Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The board shall adopt a policy to establish a district- | ||
| and campus-level planning and decision-making process that will | ||
| involve the professional staff of the district, parents, and | ||
| community members in establishing and reviewing the district's and | ||
| campuses' educational plans, goals, performance objectives, and | ||
| major classroom instructional programs. The board shall establish | ||
| a procedure under which meetings are held regularly by district- | ||
| and campus-level planning and decision-making committees that | ||
| include representative professional staff, including, if | ||
| practicable, at least one representative with the primary | ||
| responsibility for educating students with disabilities, parents | ||
| of students enrolled in the district, business representatives, and | ||
| community members. The committees shall include a business | ||
| representative without regard to whether the representative | ||
| resides in the district or whether the business the person | ||
| represents is located in the district. The board, or the board's | ||
| designee, shall periodically meet with the district-level | ||
| committee to review the district-level committee's deliberations. | ||
| (e) The board shall adopt a procedure, consistent with | ||
| Section 21.407(a), for the professional staff in the district to | ||
| nominate and elect the professional staff representatives who shall | ||
| meet with the board or the board designee as required under this | ||
| section. At least two-thirds of the elected professional staff | ||
| representatives must be classroom teachers. The remaining staff | ||
| representatives shall include both campus- and district-level | ||
| professional staff members. If practicable, the committee | ||
| membership shall include at least one professional staff | ||
| representative with the primary responsibility for educating | ||
| students with disabilities. Board policy must provide procedures | ||
| for: | ||
| (1) the selection of parents to the district-level and | ||
| campus-level committees; and | ||
| (2) the selection of community members and business | ||
| representatives to serve on the district-level committee in a | ||
| manner that provides for appropriate representation of the | ||
| community's diversity. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 778 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 778 passed the House on | ||
| May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
