Bill Text: TX HB69 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that school districts and open-enrollment charter schools report certain information regarding children with disabilities who reside in residential facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB69 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB69-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 69 | |
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| relating to a requirement that school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools report certain information regarding children with | ||
| disabilities who reside in residential facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 29.012, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) The commissioner by rule shall require each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school to include in the | ||
| district's or school's Public Education Information Management | ||
| System (PEIMS) report the number of children with disabilities | ||
| residing in a residential facility who: | ||
| (1) are required to be tracked by the Residential | ||
| Facility Monitoring (RFM) System; and | ||
| (2) receive educational services from the district or | ||
| school. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
