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 speak English, the
 1-9     district shall:
1-10                 (1)  provide the parent with a written or audiotaped
1-11     copy of the child's individualized education program translated
1-12     into Spanish if Spanish is the parent's native language; or
1-13                 (2)  if the parent's native language is a language
1-14     other than Spanish, make a good faith effort to provide the parent
1-15     with a written or audiotaped copy of the child's individualized
1-16     education program translated into the parent's native language.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1275 was passed by the House on May
         5, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 98, Nays 46, 1 present, not
         voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
         H.B. No. 1275 on May 26, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
         conference committee to consider the differences between the two
         houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
         on H.B. No. 1275 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
         Nays 1, 1 present, not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1275 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 21, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         1275 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor