1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a continuing advisory panel to provide policy guidance
 1-3     concerning special education and related services.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 29.006, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 29.006.  CONTINUING ADVISORY PANEL [COMMITTEE].  (a)
 1-8     The governor shall appoint a continuing advisory panel  [committee,
 1-9     composed of 17 members,] under 20 U.S.C. Section 1412(a)(21) and
1-10     its subsequent amendments [1413(a)(12)].  The appointments are not
1-11     subject to confirmation by  the senate.  Members of the panel
1-12     [committee] are appointed for staggered terms of four years with
1-13     the terms of as nearly as possible to one-half of the [eight or
1-14     nine] members expiring on February 1 of each odd-numbered year.
1-15           (b)  For purposes of panel membership:
1-16                 (1)  a person who stands in parental relation to a
1-17     student  receiving services under the Individuals with Disabilities
1-18     Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400 et seq.) and its subsequent
1-19     amendments is considered a parent of a child with disabilities; and
1-20                 (2)  a parent who is an employee of a school district
1-21     or of any program that delivers services under the Individuals with
1-22     Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec.  1400 et seq.) and its
1-23     subsequent amendments is not considered a parent of a child with
1-24     disabilities.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding the terms of members of the
 2-2     continuing advisory panel as specified under Section 29.006(a),
 2-3     Education Code, as amended by this Act, on February 1, 2001, all
 2-4     positions on the panel shall be filled.  Members of the panel
 2-5     appointed to serve beginning on February 1, 2001, shall be
 2-6     appointed so that representation on the panel complies with Section
 2-7     29.006(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act, and with the
 2-8     Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400 et
 2-9     seq.) and its subsequent amendments.  Those members shall draw lots
2-10     for terms in accordance with Section 29.006(a), Education Code, as
2-11     amended by this Act.
2-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1733 was passed by the House on April
         30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1733 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor