Bill Text: TX HB1249 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to continuing education requirements for public school counselors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB1249 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1249-Introduced.html
  88R3960 ANG-D
 
  By: Lozano H.B. No. 1249
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to continuing education requirements for public school
  counselors.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.054(f), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (f)  Continuing education requirements for a counselor must
  [provide that not more than 25 percent of training required every
  five years] include instruction regarding:
               (1)  assisting students in developing high school
  graduation plans;
               (2)  implementing dropout prevention strategies;
               (3)  informing students concerning:
                     (A)  college admissions, including college
  financial aid resources and application procedures; and
                     (B)  career opportunities;
               (4)  counseling students concerning mental health
  conditions and substance abuse, including through the use of
  grief-informed and trauma-informed interventions and crisis
  management and suicide prevention strategies; and
               (5)  effective implementation of a comprehensive
  school counseling program under Section 33.005.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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