This rule is to be repealed. The Department of Health, Children’s Medical Services, is the lead agency for early intervention services provided to infants and toddlers with disabilities through Part C of the IDEA. In collaboration with Early Steps, school districts may provide early intervention services for eligible infants and toddlers with disabilities. In the event the school district serves Part C eligible infants and toddlers, the Part C procedural safeguards should be provided to the family. Implementation of the content of the procedural safeguards, such as requirements of notice, consent, explaining the safeguards and family rights, etc., would be a responsibility of the Early Steps service coordinator and would not be an appropriate function of the school district to assume. The Department of Health, Children’s Medical Services, Early Steps has developed current policies and guidance to ensure that infants and toddlers and their families are guaranteed procedural safeguards with respect to the provision of early intervention services. These policies also provide current Early Steps procedures for right to a due process hearing.