(a) The State Board of Education, in collaboration with the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, the Department of Developmental Services and the Office of Workforce Competitiveness, shall: (1) Coordinate the provision of transition resources, services and programs to children requiring special education and related services, (2) create, and update as necessary, a fact sheet that lists the state agencies that provide transition resources, services and programs and a brief description of such transition resources, services and programs and disseminate such fact sheet to local and regional boards of education for distribution to parents, teachers, administrators and boards of education, and (3) annually collect information related to transition resources, programs and services provided by other state agencies and make such information available to parents, teachers, administrators and boards of education.
(b) For the school year commencing July 1, 2016, and each school year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall distribute the information described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section to each local or regional board of education. Each local or regional board of education shall annually distribute such information to the parent of a child requiring special education and related services in grades six to twelve, inclusive, at a planning and placement team meeting for such child. As used in this section, “parent” means the parent or guardian of a child requiring special education or the surrogate parent or, in the case of a pupil who is an emancipated minor or eighteen years of age or older, the pupil.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 266.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015.