By Luna H.B. No. 1275 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing a parent with a copy of a special education 1-3 student's education plan translated into the parent's native 1-4 language. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 29.005, Education Code, is amended by 1-7 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (d) If the child's parent is unable to read English, the 1-9 district shall provide the parent with a copy of the child's 1-10 individualized education program translated into the parent's 1-11 native language, if a community volunteer is available. If the 1-12 district provides documentation of a good-faith effort to provide 1-13 the parent with a written translation of the child's individualized 1-14 education program and documentation that a written translation is 1-15 not feasible, the district may provide the parent with an 1-16 audiotaped translation of the individualized education program made 1-17 during the course of the ARD meeting. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.