By: Manuel, Cunningham, Lalani, Hinojosa H.B. No. 4716
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the referral of certain students receiving special
education services to a local intellectual and developmental
disability authority for services or public benefits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 29.025 to read as follows:
Sec. 29.025. REFERRAL TO LOCAL INTELLECTUAL AND
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY. A school district shall refer
each student receiving special education services under this
subchapter who has or is suspected to have an intellectual or
developmental disability to a local intellectual and developmental
disability authority for services or public benefits, including
services under a Medicaid waiver program established under Section
1915(c), Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1396n(c)).
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.