Bill Text: TX SB921 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the required completion date of a report concerning an initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Referred to Education [SB921 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB921-Introduced.html
By: Deuell | S.B. No. 921 | |
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relating to the required completion date of a report concerning an | ||
initial evaluation of a student for purposes of special education | ||
services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 29.004, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A written report of a full individual and initial | ||
evaluation of a student for purposes of special education services | ||
shall be completed not later than the 60th school [ |
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following the date on which the school district, in accordance with | ||
20 U.S.C. Section 1414(a), as amended, receives written consent for | ||
the evaluation, signed by the student's parent or legal guardian. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2013. |