Bill Text: TX HB320 | 2027-2028 | 90th Legislature Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to required reporting regarding a school district's school counseling program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-11-09 - Filed [HB320 Detail]

Download: Texas-2027-HB320-Introduced.html

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90R350 MEW-F
By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 320

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to required reporting regarding a school district's school
counseling program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.306(d-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d-1) The report must also include:
(1) the number of school counselors providing
counseling services at each campus;
(2) the average number of hours a school counselor
spent on:
(A) duties that are components of a counseling
program developed under Section 33.005; and
(B) duties that are not components of a
counseling program described by Paragraph (A), including the
average number of hours spent administering or providing assistance
in connection with assessment instruments, except for time spent
interpreting data from assessment instruments;
(3) the findings, conclusions, and other relevant
information from the district's assessment of the district's
compliance with the policy adopted under Section 33.006(d) required
under Subsection (h) of that section; and
(4) based on the information included in the report
under Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3), an evaluation of the
district's school counseling program.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2027-2028
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, 2027.