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Committee hears amended bill to update special-education definitions, sponsor says change aligns state language with federal IDEA
Summary
An amended House bill that updates state special-education definitions to reference the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act drew statements of support and concern; committee recessed the bill until the next week so the prime sponsor could appear.
House Bill 699, as amended, would revise state statutory definitions for special education to align some language with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), clarify terms such as ‘‘brain injury’’ and ‘‘approved educational environment,’’ and replace partial or inaccurate statutory definitions with cross-references to relevant federal language.
Representative Margaret Dry, appearing as a co-sponsor and not the prime author, told…
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