ENROLLEDSCAHB342 428 4282 SENATE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS Regular Session HOUSEAmendments BILLproposed NO.bySenate Committee on Education to Reengrossed House Bill No.

342by BYRepresentative REPRESENTATIVESKnox KNOX,AMENDMENT ADAMS,NO. AMEDEE, BAYHAM, BERAULT, BOYD, BROUSSARD, CARPENTER, WILFORD CARTER, CARVER, CHASSION, CHENEVERT, EDMONSTON, EGAN, FISHER, FREIBERG, GREEN, JACKSON, TRAVIS JOHNSON, JORDAN, LACOMBE, TERRY LANDRY, LARVADAIN,LYONS,MARCELLE,MARTINEZ,MENA,MOORE,NEWELL, OWEN,PHELPS,SCHAMERHORN,SPELL,STAGNI,TAYLOR,VENTRELLA, WALTERS, WILEY, WYBLE, YOUNG, AND ZERINGUE AN ACT To enact R.S.

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and to provide for related matters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:

Section 1.

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Vinaya Alexander, Landry Bell, Noah Cannino, Erin Carpenter, Corinth Corley, Zachry Edmonston, Carter Hart, Cameron Hogan, Eden Emily Robinson, Sammy Rollins, and Henry Lee Wray Act".

Section 2.

R.S.

17:1946(B)(3) is hereby enacted to read as follows:

§1946.

Procedural safeguards * * * B.

* * * (3) In anyspecial education due process hearing, the local educationagency shall have the burden of proof, including the burden of persuasion and production, relative to the appropriateness of a student's program or placement or the Page 1 of 2 CODING:

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342 ENROLLED appropriateness of the program or placement proposed by the agency.

This burden shall be met by a preponderance of the evidence.

* * * SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA APPROVED:

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