Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 870 amends the Education Code to require the Texas Education Agency to produce a comprehensive and easily understood document explaining the process by which a special education student's individualized education program is developed, parental rights and responsibilities in the process, and information a parent needs to participate effectively in meetings of the child's admission, review, and dismissal committee. The act also requires the agency to provide the school district with sufficient copies for distribution and to ensure that each district provides the document to a parent as soon as practicable after a child is referred for admission to a special education program, but at least five school days before the committee's first meeting, or at any other time when requested by the parent.