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
  86R6173 TSS-D
 
  By: Paxton S.B. No. 2075
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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, [or Section 38.003,] and
  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 [The] State Board of
  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.
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