Bill Text: TX HB3612 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding best practices for assisting students with autism spectrum disorder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3612 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3612-Engrossed.html
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| By: Davis of Dallas | H.B. No. 3612 | |
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| relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board regarding best practices for assisting students | ||
| with autism spectrum disorder. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.06694 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.06694. STUDY AND REPORT ON ASSISTING STUDENTS WITH | ||
| AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. (a) The board shall conduct a study to | ||
| determine best practices for assisting students with autism | ||
| spectrum disorder who are enrolled at institutions of higher | ||
| education. | ||
| (b) The study must: | ||
| (1) identify and track: | ||
| (A) the number of students with autism spectrum | ||
| disorder who graduate from secondary schools in this state; | ||
| (B) the number of students with autism spectrum | ||
| disorder who are enrolled at institutions of higher education; | ||
| (C) the student financial assistance available | ||
| to students with autism spectrum disorder who enroll at | ||
| institutions of higher education; and | ||
| (D) the graduation rates of students with autism | ||
| spectrum disorder who enroll at institutions of higher education; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) identify and examine best practices and program | ||
| modules from public and private institutions of higher education | ||
| outside this state that have achieved successful results in working | ||
| with students with autism spectrum disorder. | ||
| (c) In conducting the study, the board shall collaborate | ||
| with school districts that offer specialized programs for students | ||
| with autism spectrum disorder to determine how those programs could | ||
| be replicated at or extended to postsecondary institutions. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1, 2021, the board shall submit | ||
| to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, and the commissioner of education a written | ||
| report that includes the study's findings and any recommendations | ||
| for legislative or other action. | ||
| (e) This section expires January 1, 2022. | ||
| 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. | ||
