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There is no significant fiscal implication to the State.
Local Government
Some school districts
would be required to hire or to contract with a behavior analyst, a clinical
psychologist, or a licensed specialist in school psychology. Additionally,
functional behavioral assessments are evaluations, so if they are used to
develop or modify a child's behavioral intervention plan, school districts may incur expenses related to providing
independent educational evaluations (IEEs) or requests for due process hearings
if parents disagree with the functional behavioral assessment conducted by the
district. In the latter case, parents may also incur expenses if a school
district requests a due process hearing in response to a parent's request for
an IEE.
SB 1584 would amend Education Code to require that staff development training include training on positive behavioral intervention and supports strategies, including ensuring that adequately trained personnel can handle the positive behavioral intervention and supports strategies needs of children in a special education program.
The bill would add a section to Education Code to provide guidelines on positive behavioral intervention strategies and providing functional behavioral assessments to students who interfere with other students' ability to learn. The bill would require school districts to notify a student's parent if restraint or time-out was used
on a student by the end of the school day when it was used. The bill would require an
admission, review, and dismissal (ARD) committee to be scheduled within 10 days of the
incident to determine the need for a functional behavioral assessment or
modified behavioral intervention plan. There are additional provisions for guidelines on behavioral intervention plans and legal use of restraints on a child.