1-1     By:  Luna (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)                H.B. No. 1275
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 1999;
 1-3     May 7, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to providing a parent with a copy of a special education
 1-9     student's education plan translated into the parent's native
1-10     language.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 29.005, Education Code, is amended by
1-13     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-14           (d)  If the child's parent is unable to read English, the
1-15     district shall provide the parent with a copy of the child's
1-16     individualized education program translated into the parent's
1-17     native language, if a community volunteer is available.  If the
1-18     district provides documentation of a good-faith effort to provide
1-19     the parent with a written translation of the child's individualized
1-20     education program and documentation that a written translation is
1-21     not feasible, the district may provide the parent with an
1-22     audiotaped translation of the individualized education program made
1-23     during the course of the ARD meeting.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.
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