Bill Text: TX SB2075 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to public school compliance with dyslexia screening, reading instrument requirements, and a requirement that a school district notify certain parents or guardians of a program providing students with reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-04 - Effective immediately [SB2075 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2075-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to public school compliance with dyslexia screening, reading instrument requirements, and a requirement that a school district notify certain parents or guardians of a program providing students with reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-04 - Effective immediately [SB2075 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2075-Introduced.html
86R6173 TSS-D | ||
By: Paxton | S.B. No. 2075 |
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relating to public school compliance with dyslexia screening and | ||
testing requirements. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 7.028(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Section 29.001(5), 29.010(a), | ||
38.003, or 39.057, the agency may monitor compliance with | ||
requirements applicable to a process or program provided by a | ||
school district, campus, program, or school granted charters under | ||
Chapter 12, including the process described by Subchapter F, | ||
Chapter 11, or a program described by Subchapter B, C, D, E, F, H, or | ||
I, Chapter 29, or Subchapter A, Chapter 37, [ |
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the use of funds provided for such a program under Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 42, only as necessary to ensure: | ||
(1) compliance with federal law and regulations; | ||
(2) financial accountability, including compliance | ||
with grant requirements; and | ||
(3) data integrity for purposes of: | ||
(A) the Public Education Information Management | ||
System (PEIMS); and | ||
(B) accountability under Chapters 39 and 39A. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 38.003, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) Subject to Subsection (c-1), the [ |
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Education shall adopt any rules and standards necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
(c-1) The agency by rule shall develop procedures designed | ||
to allow the agency to: | ||
(1) effectively audit and monitor and periodically | ||
conduct site visits of all school districts to ensure that | ||
districts are complying with this section, including the program | ||
approved by the State Board of Education under this section; | ||
(2) identify any problems school districts experience | ||
in complying with this section, including the program approved by | ||
the State Board of Education under this section; and | ||
(3) develop reasonable and appropriate remedial | ||
strategies to address school district noncompliance and ensure the | ||
purposes of this section are accomplished. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2019. |