NEWS: H.R. 2740 "IDEA Fairness Restoration Act" would allow expert witness fees for parents

Congressmen Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Pete Sessions (R-TX) introduced H.R. 2740, the IDEA Fairness Restoration Act. This bill would overturn a 2006 Supreme Court decision that prohibits the payment of fees to expert witnesses representing parents in IDEA due process. The fees would only be paid by school systems which are found by the courts to have wrongfully denied an appropriate education to students with disabilities under IDEA.

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H.R. 2740 would amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit a prevailing party in an action or proceeding brought to enforce the Act to be awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses.
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H.R. 2740: To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to permit a prevailing party in an action or proceeding brought to enforce the Act to be awarded expert witness fees and certain other expenses.
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Other references

• Text of H.R. 2740 at Thomas.gov
• ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DIST. BD. OF ED. v.MURPHY (No. 05-18)
  402 F. 3d 332, reversed and remanded.
  Cornell University Law School
• Topic: Procedural Safeguards: Due Process Hearings. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs 10.04.06

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