General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 71B Children With Special Needs

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 71B, Section 1
  The following words as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Department”, the department of education. “Free...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; special education programs; pre-school level admission to programs; assignment of child - Chapter 71B, Section 2
  The board shall promulgate, jointly with the departments of mental health, developmental services, public health, children and families and youth services, the Massachusetts commission for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bureau of special education appeals; duties; director; supervision; standards for dispute resolution; confidentiality; hearing officers; memorandum of understanding; bureau of special education appeals advisory council - Chapter 71B, Section 2A
  (a) There shall be a bureau of special education appeals which shall provide adjudicatory hearings, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution as determined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of school age children with a disability; diagnosis of disability; proposal of program; evaluations and assessments of child and program - Chapter 71B, Section 3
  In accordance with the regulations, guidelines and directives of the department issued jointly with the departments of mental health, developmental services, public health, youth services,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administrator of special education; duties; joint appointment - Chapter 71B, Section 3A
  (a) A school committee with four thousand or more children enrolled in its school system shall appoint a person to be its administrator of special...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements between school committees or with public or private schools - Chapter 71B, Section 4
  The school committee of any city, town or school district may, to meet its obligations under section three, with the approval of the department enter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Costs or obligations; payment; budget - Chapter 71B, Section 5
  Any school committee which provides or arranges for the provision of special education pursuant to the provisions of section three shall pay for such special...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special education reimbursement program - Chapter 71B, Section 5A
  (a) There is hereby established, subject to appropriation, a special education reimbursement program. Said program shall reimburse municipalities for the eligible instructional costs associated with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pooled risk program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs - Chapter 71B, Section 5B
  (a) There is hereby established a pooled risk program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs to be administered by the department. The board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Zero interest loan program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs - Chapter 71B, Section 5C
  (a) There is hereby established a zero interest loan program for extraordinary and unanticipated special education costs, to be administered by the department. The board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of children to classes; annual report; equal educational opportunities; prima facie denial; hearings; injunctive or other relief - Chapter 71B, Section 6
  School committees shall annually report to the department, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the department, the assignment by sex, national origin, economic status, race and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tests for selection of children for referral, diagnosis, or evaluation - Chapter 71B, Section 7
  No results of standardized or local tests of ability, aptitude, attitude, affect, achievement, or aspiration may be used exclusively in the selection of children for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation to and from school; reimbursement to parents - Chapter 71B, Section 8
  If a school age child with a disability attends a school approved by the department within or without the city or town of residence of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Department to define circumstances requiring special education programs and to provide standards - Chapter 71B, Section 9
  The department, after consultation with the departments of mental health, developmental services and public health, shall define the circumstances in which school committees may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Workshop curriculum; parent advisory committee - Chapter 71B, Section 9A
  The department of education shall provide a workshop curriculum on the rights of students, their parents and guardians under the special education laws of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Referral of children to institutions within or without the commonwealth on annual renewal basis upon request; requisites; expenses and cost - Chapter 71B, Section 10
  The department may, on an annual renewal basis, upon the request of the parents or guardians and the recommendations of a local school committee refer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 144 - Chapter 71B, Section 11
  Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Incarcerated children with a disability; special education - Chapter 71B, Section 11A
  The department of education shall provide special education to school aged children with a disability who are incarcerated in county houses of correction.
• Massachusetts General Laws - School departments; establishment; administration; staff; operation; expenditures; costs of education - Chapter 71B, Section 12
  The department shall establish and maintain a school department for school-age children in each institution under the control of the departments of mental health, developmental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 12A to 12C - Chapter 71B, Section 12A
  For the purposes of sections twelve A to twelve C, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Disabled person”, a person who is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bureau of transitional planning; transitional advisory committee; establishment - Chapter 71B, Section 12B
  There shall be within the executive office of human services a bureau of transitional planning. There is also hereby established within the executive office of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing habilitative services; eligibility; transitional plan; rules and regulations - Chapter 71B, Section 12C
  A disabled person who has been receiving special education under the provisions of this chapter shall be eligible, subject to appropriation, upon graduation from high...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec. 27 - Chapter 71B, Section 13
  Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec. 70J - Chapter 71B, Section 13A
  Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special needs programs; reimbursement of transportation costs - Chapter 71B, Section 14
  The state treasurer shall annually, on or before November twentieth, reimburse any city, town, regional school district or independent vocational school for expenditures incurred during...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 688, Sec. 2 - Chapter 71B, Section 15
  Repealed, 1983, 688, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Students with disabilities; participation in high school graduation ceremonies and activities without award of high school diploma - Chapter 71B, Section 16
  A school age child with a disability, in this section called a student, who is completing the twelfth grade but who has not yet earned...

Last modified: September 11, 2015