LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas FISCAL NOTE, 88TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION April 15, 2023 TO: Honorable Brad Buckley, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE: HB2125 by Bucy (Relating to a required training course for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings or as facilitators for individualized education program facilitation.), As Introduced No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated. Depending on decisions made by the Commission on Developmental Disabilities on the creation and implementation of the training program and test for certain special education hearing participants, additional FTE recources may be required. However, it is assumed that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed using existing resources. Local Government ImpactThe bill would require school districts to ensure that hearing officers and parties who are represented by non-attorneys in special education due process hearings against them will have taken a specific course on special education law and passed an exam. Districts would also need to ensure that certain Individualized Education Program facilitators have also taken the course and passed the exam.School districts would ensure the Special Education Dispute Resolution Handbook, the Notice of Procedural Safeguards, and the Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process are updated due to requirements that the district provide a hardcopy to parents of the Notice of Procedural Safeguards and the Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process. There would also be costs to some Education Service Centers associated with translation, printing, and distribution of the documents. Source Agencies: b > td > 701 Texas Education Agency LBB Staff: b > td > JMc, KSk, ASA, SL
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 88TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
April 15, 2023
TO: Honorable Brad Buckley, Chair, House Committee on Public Education FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board IN RE: HB2125 by Bucy (Relating to a required training course for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings or as facilitators for individualized education program facilitation.), As Introduced
TO: Honorable Brad Buckley, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
FROM: Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB2125 by Bucy (Relating to a required training course for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings or as facilitators for individualized education program facilitation.), As Introduced
Honorable Brad Buckley, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
Honorable Brad Buckley, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
HB2125 by Bucy (Relating to a required training course for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings or as facilitators for individualized education program facilitation.), As Introduced
HB2125 by Bucy (Relating to a required training course for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings or as facilitators for individualized education program facilitation.), As Introduced
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Depending on decisions made by the Commission on Developmental Disabilities on the creation and implementation of the training program and test for certain special education hearing participants, additional FTE recources may be required. However, it is assumed that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed using existing resources.
Local Government Impact
The bill would require school districts to ensure that hearing officers and parties who are represented by non-attorneys in special education due process hearings against them will have taken a specific course on special education law and passed an exam. Districts would also need to ensure that certain Individualized Education Program facilitators have also taken the course and passed the exam.School districts would ensure the Special Education Dispute Resolution Handbook, the Notice of Procedural Safeguards, and the Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process are updated due to requirements that the district provide a hardcopy to parents of the Notice of Procedural Safeguards and the Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process. There would also be costs to some Education Service Centers associated with translation, printing, and distribution of the documents.
School districts would ensure the Special Education Dispute Resolution Handbook, the Notice of Procedural Safeguards, and the Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process are updated due to requirements that the district provide a hardcopy to parents of the Notice of Procedural Safeguards and the Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process. There would also be costs to some Education Service Centers associated with translation, printing, and distribution of the documents.
Source Agencies: b > td > 701 Texas Education Agency
701 Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff: b > td > JMc, KSk, ASA, SL
JMc, KSk, ASA, SL