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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 376 By: Hicks
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to special education; directing each
school district to create a s pecial education
advisory council; providing for members hip; requiring
certain portion of council to be certain parents or
legal guardians; requiring appointments by certain
date; providing for election of chair and vice chair;
requiring meeting to be called by certain date;
providing for staff support; subjecting meetings to
certain act; providing duties of the council;
providing for codification; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF O KLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 13-117 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. For the purpose of increasing involvem ent of parents and
legal guardians of students with disabilities in school district
board of education policy making and decision making, each school
district shall create a special educ ation advisory council. The
council shall consist of at least three ( 3) but no more than eleven
(11) members. The board of education shall appoint all members , at
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least one-half (1/2) of whom shall be parents or legal guardian s of
students with disabilities . Members shall be appointed no later
than September 15 of each sc hool year for two-year terms. At the
first meeting, the council shall elect a chair and vice chair.
B. A meeting of the special educati on advisory council shall be
called by the school district superintendent no later than October 1
of each year for the purpose of addressing special educ ation issues.
The council may meet at other times as necessary in a meeting space
furnished by the distr ict. The district shall provide staff support
for the council. All council meetings shall be subject to the
Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.
C. The duties of the speci al education advisory council shall
be to assist in the formulation of district goals for st udents with
disabilities, to advise the school district on matters relating to
continuous program improvement efforts as they pertain to special
education and to provide community-wide support to families with
students in the district’s special education p rograms.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2021.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason wh ereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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