Opinion ID: 770685
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Heading: Change in Nevada Law

Text: 9 After this action was commenced, the Nevada legislature amended state law to provide that [t]he board of trustees of each school district shall provide programs of special education and related services for children who are exempt from compulsory attendance pursuant to the home-education exemption and receive instruction at home. Nev. Act Chap. 606, Sec. 45 (1999) (effective July 1, 1999), codified at NRS 392.070(2) (2000). Under the amended Nevada law,related services includes speech-language pathology . . . services. NRS 392.070(7) (2000) (referencing 20 U.S.C. S 1401(22)). 10 Pursuant to this legislation, the school district concedes that it is now required to provide speech therapy to eligible home-educated children, and Christopher has been assessed and deemed eligible for speech therapy services. Thus, there is no need for us to consider whether the district court erred by refusing to enter a declaratory judgment. We remand that matter to the district court for its consideration in light of Nevada's new law. 11 However, neither the appeal nor the action is moot, because the new law does not resolve the reimbursement claim for the payments already made by the parents for Christopher's therapy, to which we now turn. Cf. Capistrano Unified School Dist. v. Wartenberg, 59 F.3d 884, 890 (9th Cir. 1995) (graduation of disabled student did not moot claims for reimbursement and attorneys' fees).