By: RodrÃguez S.B. No. 436
(In the Senate - Filed January 6, 2017; February 6, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of the special education continuing
advisory committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.006, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows:
(d) Committee meetings must be conducted in compliance with
Chapter 551, Government Code.
(e) The committee shall provide a procedure for members of
the public to speak at committee meetings. The procedure may not
require a member of the public to register to speak earlier than the
day of the meeting.
(f) The agency must post on the agency's Internet website:
(1) contact information for the committee, including
an e-mail address;
(2) notice of each open meeting of the committee;
(3) minutes of each open meeting of the committee; and
(4) guidance concerning how to submit public comments
to the committee.
(g) The committee shall develop a policy to encourage public
participation with the committee.
(h) Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the
committee shall submit a report to the legislature with recommended
changes to state law and agency rules relating to special
education. The committee shall include the committee's current
policy on encouraging public participation, as required by
Subsection (g), in the report.
SECTION 2. Section 29.006(d), Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to an open meeting of the special education
continuing advisory committee held on or after the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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