By Luna                                               H.B. No. 1275
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1275:
         By Oliveira                                       C.S.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 parents 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 the district provides documentation of a good
1-12     faith effort to provide the parent with a written translation of
1-13     the child's individualized education program and documentation that
1-14     a written translation is not feasible, the district may provide the
1-15     parent with an audiotaped translation of the individualized
1-16     education program made during the course of the ARD meeting.
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.