Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 592.014

  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005

Each person with an intellectual disability has the right to receive publicly supported educational services, including those services provided under the Education Code, that are appropriate to the person’s individual needs regardless of:
(1) the person’s chronological age;
(2) the degree of the person’s intellectual disability;
(3) the person’s accompanying disabilities or handicaps; or
(4) the person’s admission or commitment to intellectual disability services.