By:  Zaffirini                                        S.R. No. 1173
                                  SENATE RESOLUTION
 1-1           BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, That
 1-2     Senate Rule 12.03 be suspended, as provided by Senate Rule 12.08,
 1-3     to enable the conference committee appointed to resolve the
 1-4     differences between the house and senate versions of H.B. No. 1275,
 1-5     relating to providing a parent with a copy of a special education
 1-6     student's education plan translated into the parent's native
 1-7     language, to consider and take action on the following matter:
 1-8           Senate Rules 12.03(3) and (4) are suspended to permit the
 1-9     committee to add text to read as follows:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 29.005, Education Code, is amended by
1-11     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-12           (d)  If the child's parent is unable to speak English, the
1-13     district shall:
1-14                 (1)  provide the parent with a written or audiotaped
1-15     copy of the child's individualized education program translated
1-16     into Spanish if Spanish is the parent's native language; or
1-17                 (2)  if the parent's native language is a language
1-18     other than Spanish, make a good faith effort to provide the parent
1-19     with a written or audiotaped copy of the child's individualized
1-20     education program translated into the parent's native language.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.
 2-4           Explanation:  This change is necessary to require a school
 2-5     district to provide a copy of an individualized education program
 2-6     in Spanish if a parent's native language is Spanish, and to
 2-7     require, if a parent's native language is a language other than
 2-8     Spanish, a good faith effort to provide the copy in that language.
 2-9                                  ______________________________________
2-10                                          President of the Senate
2-11                                       I hereby certify that the above
2-12                                  Resolution was adopted by the Senate
2-13                                  on May 29, 1999, by the following.
2-14                                  vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
2-15                                  ______________________________________
2-16                                          Secretary of the Senate