Bill Text: TX HB129 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the assignment of certain certified or licensed professionals to certain public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Left pending in committee [HB129 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB129-Introduced.html
86R2850 CAE-F | ||
By: Bernal | H.B. No. 129 |
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relating to the assignment of certain certified or licensed | ||
professionals to certain public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.909 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.909. ASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN CERTIFIED OR LICENSED | ||
PROFESSIONALS. (a) At each campus in a school district in which 90 | ||
percent or more of the students in average daily attendance at the | ||
campus are educationally disadvantaged, homeless as defined by 42 | ||
U.S.C. Section 11302, or in the conservatorship of the Department | ||
of Family and Protective Services, the district shall assign at | ||
least one person employed by the district who is: | ||
(1) a school counselor; or | ||
(2) an audiologist, occupational therapist, physical | ||
therapist, physician, nurse, school psychologist, associate school | ||
psychologist, professional counselor, marriage and family | ||
therapist, social worker, or speech language pathologist licensed | ||
by the appropriate state agency that licenses that profession and | ||
who holds the appropriate credential from the appropriate state | ||
agency. | ||
(b) A school district may not require a person assigned | ||
under this section to administer assessment instruments or provide | ||
other assistance in connection with assessment instruments. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 42.2519 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.2519. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR CERTAIN CERTIFIED OR | ||
LICENSED PROFESSIONALS. (a) For each school year, from funds that | ||
may be used for the purpose, a school district is entitled to state | ||
aid in an amount, as determined by the commissioner, sufficient to | ||
assist the district in employing the number of certified or | ||
licensed professionals required by Section 33.909. | ||
(b) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
administer this section. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2020-2021 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |