Amend HB 1343 (Senate committee report) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 30.002, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsections (c-1) and (c-2) to read as follows:
	(c-1)  To implement Subsection (c)(1) and to determine a 
child's eligibility for a school district's special education 
program on the basis of a visual impairment, the full individual and 
initial evaluation of the student required by Section 29.004 must, 
in accordance with commissioner rule:
		(1)  include an orientation and mobility evaluation 
conducted:       
			(A)  by a person who is appropriately certified as 
an orientation and mobility specialist, as determined under 
commissioner rule; and
			(B)  in a variety of settings, including in the 
student's home, school, and community and in settings unfamiliar to 
the student; and
		(2)  provide for a person who is appropriately 
certified as an orientation and mobility specialist to participate, 
as part of the multidisciplinary team, in evaluating data on which 
the determination of the child's eligibility is based.
	(c-2)  Any reevaluation by a school district of a student who 
has been determined, after the full individual and initial 
evaluation, to be eligible for the district's special education 
program on the basis of a visual impairment must, in accordance with 
commissioner rule, include an orientation and mobility evaluation 
conducted by a person described by Subsection (c-1)(1)(A).
	SECTION ____.  (a)  Not later than January 1, 2010, the 
commissioner of education shall adopt rules necessary to implement 
Subsections (c-1) and (c-2), Section 30.002, Education Code, as 
added by this Act.
	(b)  Not later than the beginning of the 2010-2011 school 
year, Subsections (c-1) and (c-2), Section 30.002, Education Code, 
as added by this Act, shall be implemented.
	SECTION ____.  This Act takes effect immediately if it 
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate 
effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.