By: Manuel, Cunningham, Lalani, Hinojosa, H.B. No. 4716
      Garcia, et al.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the referral of certain students receiving special
  education services to a local intellectual and developmental
  disability authority for services or public benefits.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 29.025 to read as follows:
         Sec. 29.025.  REFERRAL TO LOCAL INTELLECTUAL AND
  DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY. A school district shall refer
  each student receiving special education services under this
  subchapter who has or is suspected to have an intellectual or
  developmental disability to a local intellectual and developmental
  disability authority for services or public benefits, including
  services under a Medicaid waiver program established under Section
  1915(c), Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396n(c)).
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  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, 2023.