Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3830 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 03/07/2023

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                            88R12666 CXP-D
 By: Lopez of Cameron H.B. No. 3830


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to a school district's duty to notify certain parents or
 guardians of a program providing students with reading disabilities
 the ability to borrow audiobooks free of charge.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 28.006(g-2), Education Code, is amended
 to read as follows:
 (g-2)  In accordance with a notification program developed
 by the commissioner by rule, a school district shall notify the
 parent or guardian of each student determined, on the basis of a
 screening under Section 38.003 or other basis, to have a reading
 disability or dyslexia or a related disorder[, or determined, on
 the basis of reading instrument results, to be at risk for dyslexia
 or other reading difficulties,] of the program maintained by the
 Texas State Library and Archives Commission providing students with
 reading disabilities the ability to borrow audiobooks free of
 charge.
 SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
 school year.
 SECTION 3.  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, 2023.