Senate Bill 464
added Section 56341.2 to the Education Code to require a local educational agency to invite to the individualized education program team meetings a representative of the group home in those cases in which an individual with exceptional needs has been placed in a group home by a juvenile court.
Assembly Bill 1337
amended Section 56505.2 of the Education Code prohibiting a due process hearing officer from rendering a decision that results in the placement, or reimbursement for the placement, of an individual with exceptional needs in a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, or that reults ina service for an individual being provided by a nonpublic, nonsectarian agency, unless the hearing officer issues a written finding that the school district's program or program offer has not complied with legal requirements.
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October 5, 2004