2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25101779D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1892

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 6, 2025

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-215.3, relating to children with disabilities; annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notification required.

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Patrons—Seibold, Clark, Cole, Convirs-Fowler, Cousins, Feggans, Henson, Keys-Gamarra, Martinez, Mundon King and Shin; Senators: Favola and Pekarsky

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Referred to Committee on Education

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-215.3 as follows:

§ 22.1-215.3. Annual individualized education program planning process; dual enrollment courses; certain parental notification required.

During the annual individualized education program (IEP) planning process prior to any year in which a child with a disability who is enrolled at a public high school is entering the eleventh grade or twelfth grade, the IEP team shall provide to the parent of such student written notification of the student's rights and obligations relating to dual enrollment courses, including detailed information on the process for ensuring that the student is receiving both a free and appropriate public education pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.) as a student enrolled in a public high school and the necessary educational accommodations pursuant to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.) as a student enrolled in a comprehensive community college.