1-1 By: Luna (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1733
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
1-3 May 3, 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 a continuing advisory panel to provide policy guidance
1-9 concerning special education and related services.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 29.006, Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 29.006. CONTINUING ADVISORY PANEL [COMMITTEE]. (a)
1-14 The governor shall appoint a continuing advisory panel [committee,
1-15 composed of 17 members,] under 20 U.S.C. Section 1412(a)(21) and
1-16 its subsequent amendments [1413(a)(12)]. The appointments are not
1-17 subject to confirmation by the senate. Members of the panel
1-18 [committee] are appointed for staggered terms of four years with
1-19 the terms of as nearly as possible to one-half of the [eight or
1-20 nine] members expiring on February 1 of each odd-numbered year.
1-21 (b) For purposes of panel membership:
1-22 (1) a person who stands in parental relation to a
1-23 student receiving services under the Individuals with Disabilities
1-24 Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400 et seq.) and its subsequent
1-25 amendments is considered a parent of a child with disabilities; and
1-26 (2) a parent who is an employee of a school district
1-27 or of any program that delivers services under the Individuals with
1-28 Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400 et seq.) and its
1-29 subsequent amendments is not considered a parent of a child with
1-30 disabilities.
1-31 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the terms of members of the
1-32 continuing advisory panel as specified under Section 29.006(a),
1-33 Education Code, as amended by this Act, on February 1, 2001, all
1-34 positions on the panel shall be filled. Members of the panel
1-35 appointed to serve beginning on February 1, 2001, shall be
1-36 appointed so that representation on the panel complies with Section
1-37 29.006(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act, and with the
1-38 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400 et
1-39 seq.) and its subsequent amendments. Those members shall draw lots
1-40 for terms in accordance with Section 29.006(a), Education Code, as
1-41 amended by this Act.
1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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