FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 236

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LIPKE (Sponsor), SCHARNHORST, SANDER, SILVEY, FUNDERBURK, FAITH, SCHAD, SCHIEFFER, GRISAMORE, LAMPE, YAEGER, MEADOWS, TRACY AND DEEKEN (Co-sponsors).

0887L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 162, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to students with disabilities.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 162, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 162.1380, to read as follows:

            162.1380. 1. The provisions of this section shall be known and referred to as "Kaitlyn's Law".

            2. Beginning July 1, 2010, each school district that operates a high school shall have a policy and procedures that allow a student with a disability who will have completed four years of high school at the end of a school year to participate in the graduation ceremony of the student's high school graduating class and receive a certificate of completion if the student's individualized education plan prescribes special education, transition planning, transition services, or related services beyond the student's four years of high school. The policy and procedures shall require timely and meaningful written notice to children with disabilities and their parents or guardians about the school district's policy and procedures adopted in accordance with this section. The state board of education shall monitor and enforce compliance with this section and is authorized to adopt rules for that purpose.

            3. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2009, shall be invalid and void.

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