86R13819 TSS-D
 
  By: Taylor S.B. No. 2185
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring a school district to notify certain parents
  or guardians of a program providing students with reading
  disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 28.006, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (g-2) to read as follows:
         (g-2)  A school district shall notify the parent or guardian
  of each student in kindergarten or first, second, or seventh grade
  determined, on the basis of a screening under Section 38.003 or
  other basis, to have dyslexia or a related disorder, or
  determined, on the basis of reading instrument results, to be at
  risk for dyslexia or other reading difficulties, of the program
  maintained by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  providing students with reading disabilities the ability to borrow
  audiobooks free of charge. 
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2019.