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
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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