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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Left pending in committee [HB129 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB129-Introduced.html
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| 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. | ||
