HB 1673, 64th R.S.
Relating to educational services for the blind and visually handicapped; providing for early identification and appropriate referral of blind and visually handicapped individuals; establishing the Governor's Coordinating Office for the Visually Handicapped; prescribing minimum standards and procedures to assure the more adequate education of individuals handicapped by serious visual loss; delineating the responsibilities of certain state-supported organizations carrying out activities impacted upon or impacting upon educational effort in behalf of blind and visually handicapped individuals; authorizing the Texas School for the Blind to conduct research, demonstration and training activities necessary for the fostering of greater adequacy in the educational effort exerted in behalf of blind and visually handicapped students by the local independent school districts of the state; providing for necessary administrative and programmatic improvements at the Texas School for the Blind; authorizing the establishment of a pilot program of state purchases of goods and services manufactured by multiply handicapped blind individuals who do not derive sufficient benefits from educational programs to be enabled to undertake employment in competitive job settings.
Chamber | Action | Comments | ↓ Date ↑ |
H | Filed | 03/13/1975 | |
H | Read first time | 03/20/1975 | |
H | Referred to Committee on Social Services | 03/20/1975 | |
H | Considered by committee in public hearing | 04/30/1975 | |
H | Considered by committee in public hearing | 05/14/1975 | |
H | Reported from committee favorably with amendments | 05/14/1975 | |
H | Read second time | 05/27/1975 | |
H | Amendments | 05/27/1975 | |
H | Passed to engrossment as amended | 05/27/1975 | |
H | Votes recorded | 05/27/1975 | |
H | Reported engrossed | 05/27/1975 | |
H | Rules failed to suspend | 05/27/1975 | |
H | Read third time | 05/29/1975 | |
H | Passed | 05/29/1975 | |
H | Sent to Senate | 05/29/1975 | |
S | Received from House | 05/30/1975 | |
S | Read first time | 05/30/1975 | |
S | Referred to Committee on Human Resources | 05/30/1975 | |
S | Considered by committee in formal meeting | 05/30/1975 | |
S | Reported from committee favorably with amendments | 05/30/1975 | |
S | Rules suspended | 05/31/1975 | |
S | Read second time | 05/31/1975 | |
S | Amended | 05/31/1975 | |
S | Passed to third reading | 05/31/1975 | |
S | Third reading | 05/31/1975 | |
S | Passed | 05/31/1975 | |
S | Sent to House | 05/31/1975 | |
H | Returned from the Senate | 05/31/1975 | |
H | House concurred in Senate amendment(s) | 05/31/1975 | |
H | Text of Senate amendment(s) | 05/31/1975 | |
H | Passed subject to Article III, Sec. 49a, Texas Constitution | 05/31/1975 | |
H | Reported enrolled | 05/31/1975 | |
H | Signed | 06/02/1975 | |
S | Signed | 06/02/1975 | |
H | Sent to the Governor | 06/09/1975 | |
H | Signed by Governor | 06/21/1975 | |
H | Effective immediately | 06/21/1975 |
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