By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 2080
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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 only if a specific
appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a
general appropriations act of the 85th Legislature.
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, 2017.