Tex. Health & Safety Code § 36.007 · Chapter 36. SPECIAL SENSES AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
PROVISION OF REMEDIAL SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may provide remedial services directly or through approved providers to eligible individuals who have certain special senses and communication disorders and who are not eligible for special education services that remediate those disorders and that are administered by the Texas Education Agency through the public schools.
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall:
(1) describe the type, amount, and duration of remedial services that the department provides;
(2) establish medical, financial, and other criteria to be applied by the department in determining an individual's eligibility for the services;
(3) establish criteria for the selection by the department of providers of remedial services; and
(4) establish procedures necessary to provide remedial services.
(c) The executive commissioner may establish a schedule to determine financial eligibility.
(d) The department may not require remedial services without the consent of the individual or, if the individual is a minor, the minor's parent, managing conservator, or guardian.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 6.34, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0123, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.36.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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