Bill Text: TX SB89 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to supplemental information required for inclusion with a written statement of an individualized education program developed for certain public school students who received special education services during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB89 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB89-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to supplemental information required for inclusion with a written statement of an individualized education program developed for certain public school students who received special education services during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB89 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB89-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 89 |
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relating to supplemental information required for inclusion with a | ||
written statement of an individualized education program developed | ||
for certain public school students who received special education | ||
services during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the COVID-19 Special | ||
Education Recovery Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.0052 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.0052. INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPPLEMENT. | ||
(a) For each child who was enrolled in a school district's special | ||
education program under this subchapter during the 2019-2020 school | ||
year or the 2020-2021 school year, the district shall prepare a | ||
supplement to be included with the written statement of the | ||
individualized education program developed for the child under | ||
Section 29.005(b). The supplement must include information | ||
indicating: | ||
(1) whether the written report of the child's full | ||
individual and initial evaluation under Section 29.004 was | ||
completed during the 2019-2020 school year or the 2020-2021 school | ||
year and, if so, whether the report was completed by the date | ||
required under that section; | ||
(2) whether the child's initial individualized | ||
education program was developed under Section 29.005(b) during the | ||
2019-2020 school year or the 2020-2021 school year and, if so, | ||
whether the program was developed by the date required under 34 | ||
C.F.R. Section 300.323(c)(1); | ||
(3) whether the provision of special services to the | ||
child under an individualized education program during the | ||
2019-2020 school year or the 2020-2021 school year was interrupted, | ||
reduced, delayed, suspended, or discontinued; and | ||
(4) whether compensatory educational services under | ||
Subchapter C are appropriate for the child based on the information | ||
under Subdivisions (1)-(3) or any other factors. | ||
(b) Section 29.005(f) and Section 29.0051 do not apply to a | ||
supplement prepared for inclusion with a written statement of an | ||
individualized education program, as required by this section. | ||
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than December 1, 2021, the | ||
commissioner of education shall adopt necessary rules under Section | ||
29.0052, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) Not later than June 1, 2022, a school district subject | ||
to Section 29.0052, Education Code, as added by this Act, shall | ||
complete each required supplement to a written statement of an | ||
individualized education program, as provided by that section. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2021. |