Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
Filed: 5/26/2010
|
|||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2254
| ||||||
2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2254, AS AMENDED, by | ||||||
3 | replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
4 | following:
| ||||||
5 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
6 | 14-17 as follows: | ||||||
7 | (105 ILCS 5/14-17 new) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 14-17. Additional procedures for children suspected | ||||||
9 | of having a specific learning disability. | ||||||
10 | (a) A school district may, but is not required to, begin | ||||||
11 | implementing the use of a process that determines how the child | ||||||
12 | responds to scientific, research-based interventions as part | ||||||
13 | of the evaluation procedures described in 34 CFR 300.304. When | ||||||
14 | a district implements the use of a process of this type, the | ||||||
15 | district shall not use a child's participation in the process | ||||||
16 | as the basis for denying a parent's request for an evaluation. |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | (b) No later than the beginning of the 2012-2013 school | ||||||
2 | year, a school district shall begin implementing the use of a | ||||||
3 | process that determines how the child responds to scientific, | ||||||
4 | research-based interventions as part of the evaluation | ||||||
5 | procedures described in 34 CFR 300.304. When a district | ||||||
6 | implements the use of a process of this type, the district | ||||||
7 | shall not use a child's participation in the process as the | ||||||
8 | basis for denying a parent's request for an evaluation.
| ||||||
9 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
10 | becoming law.".
|