Bill Text: TX SB811 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to providing a translated copy of a student's individualized education program to parents unable to speak English.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-26 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB811 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB811-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing a translated copy of a student's individualized education program to parents unable to speak English.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-26 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB811 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB811-Comm_Sub.html
By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 811 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2015; March 3, 2015, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Education; | ||
May 5, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 2; May 5, 2015, sent | ||
to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 811 | By: Rodríguez |
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relating to providing a translated copy of a student's | ||
individualized education program to parents unable to speak | ||
English. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.005, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
(d-1) In compliance with Subsection (d), the district shall | ||
provide the child's individualized education program in audiotape | ||
form if requested by the parent. Audiotaped copies shall include | ||
all components of the individualized education program required | ||
under state or federal law that are developed or revised by the | ||
committee. | ||
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. | ||
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