Allen Bill Makes School Committees Gatekeepers Of Special Education Accounts

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89R12816 GP-D

By: Allen
H.B. No. 3328

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the approval of purchases under the supplemental

special education services and instructional materials program by a

public school student's admission, review, and dismissal

committee.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 29.046(a), Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(a) Money in an account assigned to a student under Section

29.045 may be used only for supplemental special education services

and supplemental special education instructional materials

approved by the student's admission, review, and dismissal

committee under Section 29.048(c) .

SECTION 2. Section 29.048, Education Code, is amended by

adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

(c) The admission, review, and dismissal committee of a

student approved for participation in the program shall hold an

admission, review, and dismissal committee meeting for the student

with the student's parent before grant money is assigned to a

student's account under the program to determine and approve the

supplemental special education services and supplemental special

education instructional materials that would best serve the

student. The committee shall provide the student's parent and the

agency the list of approved services and materials for the student.

SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026

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, 2025.