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Amend CSHB 1335 (senate committee printing) as follows:
Insert the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber the subsequent SECTIONS appropriately.
SECTION __. Section 29.005, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The written statement of a student's individualized education program may be required to include only information included in the model form developed under Section 29.0051(a).
SECTION __. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 29.0051 to read as follows:
Sec. 29.0051. MODEL FORM. (a) The agency shall develop a model form for use in developing an individualized education program under Section 29.005(b). The form must be clear, concise, well organized, and understandable to parents and educators and may include only:
(1) the information included in the model form developed under 20 U.S.C. Section 1417(e)(1);
(2) a state-imposed requirement relevant to an individualized education program not required under federal law; and
(3) the requirements identified under 20 U.S.C. Section 1407(a)(2).
(b) The agency shall post on the agency's Internet website the form developed under Subsection (a).
(c) A school district may use the form developed under Subsection (a) to comply with the requirements for an individualized education program under 20 U.S.C. Section 1414(d).
SECTION __. Not later than December 1, 2011, the Texas Education Agency shall develop the model form required under Section 29.0051, Education Code, as added by this Act.