Bill Text: TX SB927 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a special education recovery program operated by the Texas Education Agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Left pending in committee [SB927 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB927-Introduced.html
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By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 927 |
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relating to a special education recovery program operated by the | ||
Texas Education Agency. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.023 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.023. SPECIAL EDUCATION RECOVERY PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
agency shall develop and operate a special education recovery | ||
program for the benefit of students who may have been negatively | ||
affected by the agency's use of a performance indicator under the | ||
performance-based monitoring analysis system that evaluated the | ||
percentage of the total number of enrolled students of a school | ||
district who received special education services. | ||
(b) In operating the program, the agency shall: | ||
(1) identify each student who, during the 2004-2005 | ||
through 2016-2017 school years, was denied special education | ||
services by a school district designated for the program in | ||
accordance with Subsection (c); | ||
(2) subject to Subsection (d), provide notice to the | ||
parent of each identified student that the student is entitled to | ||
reevaluation of eligibility for special education services if | ||
requested by the parent; and | ||
(3) make arrangements for: | ||
(A) the reevaluation of each student whose parent | ||
requests reevaluation; and | ||
(B) the provision of special education services | ||
to a student determined to be eligible for services. | ||
(c) The agency shall designate for participation in the | ||
program each school district in which the participation of students | ||
in the district's special education program declined as follows: | ||
(1) the number of district students receiving special | ||
education services during the 2016-2017 school year was at least | ||
200 fewer than the number of district students receiving special | ||
education services during the 2004-2005 school year; or | ||
(2) the district's enrollment rate of students | ||
receiving special education services during the 2016-2017 school | ||
year was at least 75 percent less than the district's enrollment | ||
rate of students receiving special education services during the | ||
2004-2005 school year. | ||
(d) The agency is not required to provide notification under | ||
Subsection (b)(2) or take further action in accordance with this | ||
section if the identified student is 21 years of age or older. | ||
(e) The agency shall operate the program using federal funds | ||
available to the agency for statewide special education activities. | ||
(f) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
this section. | ||
(g) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2017. |