HBA-DMH, CCH H.B. 2565 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2565 By: Dunnam Public Education 4/8/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goal of special education policy in this state is to ensure that an individualized education program for each student with a disability is properly developed, implemented, and maintained in the least restrictive environment. If a residential placement of a student with a disability primarily for care or treatment reasons involves a private residential facility in which the education program is provided by the school district, the portion of the costs that includes appropriate education services as determined by the school district's admission, review, and dismissal committee are paid from state and federal education funds. Under current law, the funding weight for special instructional arrangements for students with disabilities residing in care and treatment facilities, other than state schools, whose parents or guardians do not reside in the district is 4.0 if those students receive their education services on a local school district campus. House Bill 2565 requires the funding weight for students with disabilities residing in treatment care facilities to be 4.0 for those students who receive instruction in the least restrictive environment, regardless of location. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS House Bill 2565 amends the Education Code to require the funding weight to be 4.0 for a special instructional school arrangement for students with disabilities residing in care and treatment facilities whose parents or guardians do not reside in the district providing education services and who receive instruction in the least restrictive environment, regardless of location. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2001.