Bill Text: TX HB1453 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to special education-related requirements, including the provision of certain services, the composition of the State Board for Educator Certification, and certain educator requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Recommitted to committee [HB1453 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1453-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to special education-related requirements, including the provision of certain services, the composition of the State Board for Educator Certification, and certain educator requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-02 - Recommitted to committee [HB1453 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1453-Introduced.html
By: Bernal | H.B. No. 1453 |
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relating to updating requirements for special education training | ||
and the make up of the SBEC Board. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.033(a), Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (1) to read as follows: | ||
(1) four members must be teachers employed in public | ||
schools |
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education with classroom experience; | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.051, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
(g) The board shall propose rules to establish a minimum | ||
requirement of field-based experience in which the candidate is | ||
actively engaged in instructional or educational activities to | ||
implement individualized education plans for students with | ||
disabilities. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 21.451, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (d-4), (d-5), and (d-6) and amending Subsection | ||
(e) to read as follows: | ||
(d-4) The training on instruction for students with | ||
disabilities described in Subsection (d)(2) shall include: | ||
(1) basic knowledge of each disability category under | ||
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section | ||
1400 et seq.) and how each category can affect student learning and | ||
development; | ||
(2) proactive instructional planning techniques using | ||
a framework that | ||
(A) provides flexibility in the ways: | ||
(i) information is presented; | ||
(ii) students respond or demonstrate | ||
knowledge and skills; and | ||
(iii) students are engaged; | ||
(B) reduces barriers to instruction; | ||
(C) provides appropriate accommodations, | ||
supports, and challenges; and | ||
(D) maintains high achievement expectations for | ||
all students, including students with disabilities and students of | ||
limited English proficiency; and | ||
(3) evidence-based inclusive instructional | ||
practices, including: | ||
(A) general and special education collaborative | ||
and co-teaching models and approaches; | ||
(B) multi-tiered systems of support, including | ||
response to intervention strategies, classroom and school level | ||
data-based collaborative structures, and evidence-based strategies | ||
for intervention and progress monitoring systems in academic areas | ||
(C) classroom management techniques using | ||
evidence-based behavioral intervention strategies and supports; | ||
(D) appropriate adaptation strategies, including | ||
accommodations, modifications, and instruction in the use of | ||
assistive technology for instruction. | ||
(d-5) The training on instruction for students with | ||
disabilities described in Subsection (d)(2) must a minimum of four | ||
hours of instruction, delivered in person and be provided: | ||
(1) on an annual basis, as part of a new employee | ||
orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
school educators; | ||
(2) competency-based, interactive and experiential | ||
providing teachers the opportunity to improve their practice by | ||
integrating these skills through demonstration, observation, | ||
collaboration, fieldwork, and reflection in different | ||
instructional contexts; and | ||
(3) to existing school district and open-enrollment | ||
charter school educators, subject to Subsection (e), who are | ||
responsible for classroom implementation of a student's | ||
individualized education plan. | ||
(d-6) The training on instruction for students with | ||
disabilities described in Subsection (d)(2) is required to be | ||
completed once every five years upon initial completion of the | ||
training. | ||
SECTION | ||
4. Section 8.051(d), Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (7) to read as follows: | ||
(7) assistance through responsive remote coaching for | ||
teachers in rural areas to guide teachers through specific issues | ||
in the delivery of instruction and services to students with | ||
disabilities offered as needed through existing agency | ||
infrastructure. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 6. 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. |