Bill Text: TX SB1827 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to translation of a student's individualized education program into Spanish or another language other than English.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Education [SB1827 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1827-Introduced.html
| 88R12135 AMF-D | ||
| By: LaMantia | S.B. No. 1827 | |
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| relating to translation of a student's individualized education | ||
| program into Spanish or another language other than English. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 29.005(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (d) If English is not the native language of the child's | ||
| parent [ |
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| (1) provide the parent with a written or audiotaped | ||
| copy of the child's individualized education program translated | ||
| into Spanish if Spanish is the parent's native language; or | ||
| (2) if the parent's native language is a language other | ||
| than Spanish, make a good faith effort to provide the parent with a | ||
| written or audiotaped copy of the child's individualized education | ||
| program translated into the parent's native language. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
