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Amend HB 1886 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 29.006, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows:
(d) Committee meetings must be conducted in compliance with Chapter 551, Government Code.
(e) The committee shall provide a procedure for members of the public to speak at committee meetings. The procedure may not require a member of the public to register to speak earlier than the day of the meeting.
(f) The agency must post on the agency's Internet website:
(1) contact information for each member of the committee;
(2) notice of each open meeting of the committee;
(3) minutes of each open meeting of the committee; and
(4) guidance concerning how to submit public comments to the committee.
(g) The committee shall develop a policy to encourage public participation with the committee.
(h) Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the committee shall submit a report to the legislature with recommended changes to state law and agency rules relating to special education. The committee shall include the committee's current policy on encouraging public participation, as required by Subsection (g), in the report.
SECTION ____. Section 29.006(d), Education Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an open meeting of the special education continuing advisory committee held on or after the effective date of this Act.