Bill Text: TX HB2827 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board of certain responsibilities relating to postsecondary education and career counseling.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB2827 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2827-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2827 |
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relating to the transfer to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board of certain responsibilities relating to postsecondary | ||
education and career counseling. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 33.009(a), (b), (c), (e), (h), and (i), | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section, "coordinating board" [ |
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the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board [ |
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(b) The coordinating board [ |
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available postsecondary education and career counseling academies | ||
for school counselors and other postsecondary advisors employed by | ||
a school district at a middle school, junior high school, or high | ||
school. | ||
(c) In developing academies under this section, the | ||
coordinating board [ |
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school counselors, the Texas Workforce Commission, institutions of | ||
higher education, and business, community, and school leaders. | ||
(e) The coordinating board [ |
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instructional program that school districts may use in providing | ||
the instruction in high school, college, and career preparation | ||
required by Section 28.016. The program must be structured for use | ||
as part of an existing course. | ||
(h) From funds appropriated for that purpose, a school | ||
counselor who attends the academy under this section is entitled to | ||
receive a stipend in the amount determined by the coordinating | ||
board [ |
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counselors have received a stipend under this subsection, the | ||
coordinating board [ |
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determined by the coordinating board [ |
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attends the academy under this section. A stipend received under | ||
this subsection is not considered in determining whether a district | ||
is paying the school counselor or teacher the minimum monthly | ||
salary under Section 21.402. | ||
(i) From available funds appropriated for purposes of this | ||
section, the coordinating board [ |
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counselors and other educators curricula, instructional materials, | ||
and technological tools relating to postsecondary education and | ||
career counseling. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 33.009(f) and (j), Education Code, are | ||
repealed. | ||
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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2827 was passed by the House on April | ||
30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 26, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2827 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |