Federal IDEA law is the floor. Here's what Texas adds on top — every rule cited to its source and versioned in our knowledge base.
Your full review checks these 6 Texas rules alongside all 23 federal IDEA rules.
In Texas, if you request an evaluation in writing, the rule requires the school to answer you in writing within 15 school days — either a consent form to start the evaluation or a written refusal with reasons. If more than 15 school days have passed with no written answer, a question worth asking in writing is: "When will I receive the district's written response required by 19 TAC §89.1011(b)?"
Texas replaces the federal 60-calendar-day evaluation clock with its own: 45 school days from the day you sign consent to the finished written evaluation report. School days — weekends, holidays, and summer mostly don't count.
Once the evaluation report is done, the school has 30 calendar days to hold the ARD meeting and, if your child qualifies, write the IEP. The evaluation sitting in a drawer doesn't count as progress.
In Texas you'll hear "ARD meeting" instead of "IEP meeting" — same thing, same rights. You are a full member of the ARD committee, and no decision about your child's plan is final without the committee.
In Texas, if Spanish is your native language and you don't speak English, you have the right to the IEP itself in Spanish — written or as an audio recording. Not just an interpreter at the meeting: the document.
Texas law adds its own checklist on top of the federal IEP requirements. If your child has autism, for example, the ARD committee must consider a specific list of supports and say so in the IEP.
Every review also checks the full federal IDEA rules — the floor for every state, everywhere.