Amend HB 272 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 29.003, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(b)  A student is eligible to participate in a school district's special education program if the student:

(1)  is not more than 21 years of age and has a visual or auditory impairment that prevents the student from being adequately or safely educated in public school without the provision of special services; or

(2)  is at least three but not more than 21 years of age and has one or more of the following disabilities that prevents the student from being adequately or safely educated in public school without the provision of special services:

(A)  physical disability;

(B)  intellectual or developmental disability;

(C)  emotional dysregulation [disturbance];

(D)  learning disability;

(E)  autism;

(F)  speech disability; or

(G)  traumatic brain injury.