| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to supplemental information required for inclusion with a |
|
|
written statement of an individualized education program developed |
|
|
for certain public school students who received special education |
|
|
services during the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the COVID-19 Special |
|
|
Education Recovery Act. |
|
|
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Section 29.0052 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 29.0052. INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPPLEMENT. |
|
|
(a) For each child who was enrolled in a school district's special |
|
|
education program under this subchapter during the 2019-2020 school |
|
|
year or the 2020-2021 school year, the district shall prepare a |
|
|
supplement to be included with the written statement of the |
|
|
individualized education program developed for the child under |
|
|
Section 29.005(b). The supplement must include information |
|
|
indicating: |
|
|
(1) whether the written report of the child's full |
|
|
individual and initial evaluation under Section 29.004 was |
|
|
completed during the 2019-2020 school year or the 2020-2021 school |
|
|
year and, if so, whether the report was completed by the date |
|
|
required under that section; |
|
|
(2) whether the child's initial individualized |
|
|
education program was developed under Section 29.005(b) during the |
|
|
2019-2020 school year or the 2020-2021 school year and, if so, |
|
|
whether the program was developed by the date required under 34 |
|
|
C.F.R. Section 300.323(c)(1); |
|
|
(3) whether the provision of special services to the |
|
|
child under an individualized education program during the |
|
|
2019-2020 school year or the 2020-2021 school year was interrupted, |
|
|
reduced, delayed, suspended, or discontinued; and |
|
|
(4) whether compensatory educational services under |
|
|
Subchapter C are appropriate for the child based on the information |
|
|
under Subdivisions (1)-(3) or any other factors. |
|
|
(b) Section 29.005(f) and Section 29.0051 do not apply to a |
|
|
supplement prepared for inclusion with a written statement of an |
|
|
individualized education program, as required by this section. |
|
|
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to |
|
|
implement this section. |
|
|
(d) This section expires September 1, 2023. |
|
|
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than December 1, 2021, the |
|
|
commissioner of education shall adopt necessary rules under Section |
|
|
29.0052, Education Code, as added by this Act. |
|
|
(b) Not later than June 1, 2022, a school district subject |
|
|
to Section 29.0052, Education Code, as added by this Act, shall |
|
|
complete each required supplement to a written statement of an |
|
|
individualized education program, as provided by that section. |
|
|
SECTION 4. 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, 2021. |