Bill Text: TX HB2848 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2848 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the review under the Texas Sunset Act of the Texas Education Agency's functions relating to special education services.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-12 - Referred to Public Education [HB2848 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2848-Introduced.html

	86R4444 SOS-D

	By: Hinojosa	H.B. No. 2848



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the review under the Texas Sunset Act of the Texas
	Education Agency's functions relating to special education
	services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 29.0105 to read as follows:
	Sec. 29.0105. SUNSET PROVISION REGARDING SPECIAL SERVICES.
	(a) In this section, "federal letter" means the letter dated
	January 11, 2018, issued to the commissioner by the United States
	Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs
	addressing the results of that office's visit in Texas and its
	findings of noncompliance.
	(b) Separate from the review of the agency required under
	Section 7.004, the agency is subject to a limited review under
	Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act), of the agency's
	functions, including its supervisory and monitoring functions,
	relating to the provision of special services, except that those
	functions may not be abolished. The review shall be conducted
	during the period in which state agencies abolished in 2021 are
	reviewed.
	(c) The Sunset Advisory Commission shall limit the review
	under this section to:
	(1) the efficacy and effectiveness with which the
	agency administers its special services functions, including its
	supervisory and monitoring functions relating to the provision of
	special services; and
	(2) the corrective actions taken by the agency in
	response to each finding of noncompliance in the federal letter,
	including the extent to which the agency has implemented and is
	complying with its strategic plan and any updates to that plan
	adopted in response to the federal letter.
	(d) This section expires September 1, 2021.
	SECTION 2. 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.