Amend CSHB 5 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 29.004, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  A written report of a full individual and initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services shall be completed not later than the 60th school [calendar] day following the date on which the school district, in accordance with 20 U.S.C. Section 1414(a), as amended, receives written consent for the evaluation, signed by the student's parent or legal guardian.