| TO: | Honorable Dan Patrick, Chair, Senate Committee on Education |
| FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB590 by Naishtat (Relating to determining a child's eligibility for a school district's special education program on the basis of a visual impairment.), As Engrossed |
The bill would require an orientation and mobility evaluation be conducted by a certified orientation and mobility specialist (COMS) as part of the initial evaluation of a child's eligibility for special education services on the basis of visual impairment. The bill would require that the multidisciplinary team evaluating the child for special education services include a certified orientation and mobility specialist.
A school district or charter school would be required to ensure that the evaluation of a child's initial eligibility for special education services on the basis of visual impairment be conducted by a certified orientation and mobility specialist (COMS) under a variety of conditions and settings and that the COMS be included on the multidisciplinary team evaluating the child's initial eligibility.
| Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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| LBB Staff: | UP, JBi, JSc, JW
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