89R8630 RAL-D
By: Hernandez H.B. No. 2219
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of a student with fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder for special education services provided by a
public school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.003(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) A student is eligible to participate in a school
district's special education program if the student:
(1) is not more than 21 years of age and has a visual or
auditory impairment that prevents the student from being adequately
or safely educated in public school without the provision of
special services; or
(2) is at least three but not more than 21 years of age
and has one or more of the following disabilities that prevents the
student from being adequately or safely educated in public school
without the provision of special services:
(A) physical disability;
(B) intellectual or developmental disability;
(C) emotional disturbance;
(D) learning disability;
(E) autism;
(F) speech disability; [or]
(G) traumatic brain injury; or
(H) fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
SECTION 2. 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, 2025.