Bill Text: TX SB196 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a notification requirement if a public school, including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse, school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all instructional hours.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Vetoed) 2017-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB196 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB196-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 196 | ||
| relating to a notification requirement if a public school, | ||
| including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse, | ||
| school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all | ||
| instructional hours. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.097 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.097. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING NURSES, | ||
| SCHOOL COUNSELORS, AND LIBRARIANS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Librarian" means a person certified as a | ||
| librarian under Subchapter B, Chapter 21. | ||
| (2) "Nurse" means a person licensed under Chapter 301, | ||
| Occupations Code. | ||
| (3) "School counselor" means a person certified as a | ||
| school counselor under Subchapter B, Chapter 21. | ||
| (b) Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (i), a public | ||
| school, including an open-enrollment charter school, that does not | ||
| have a full-time nurse, school counselor, or librarian or the | ||
| equivalent of a full-time nurse, school counselor, or librarian | ||
| assigned to be present at the school for more than 30 consecutive | ||
| instructional days during the same school year shall provide | ||
| written notice of the absence to the parent of or other person | ||
| standing in parental relation to each student enrolled in the | ||
| school. | ||
| (c) A school has the equivalent of a full-time nurse under | ||
| Subsection (b) if the school has two or more nurses assigned to the | ||
| school and all regular student instructional hours at the campus | ||
| during the regular school day are covered by the assignment of at | ||
| least one nurse. | ||
| (d) A school has the equivalent of a full-time school | ||
| counselor under Subsection (b) if the school has two or more school | ||
| counselors assigned to the school and all regular student | ||
| instructional hours at the campus during the regular school day are | ||
| covered by the assignment of at least one school counselor. | ||
| (e) A school has the equivalent of a full-time librarian | ||
| under Subsection (b) if the school has two or more librarians | ||
| assigned to the school and all regular student instructional hours | ||
| at the campus during the regular school day are covered by the | ||
| assignment of at least one librarian. | ||
| (f) The principal of the school shall provide the notice | ||
| required by Subsection (b) not later than the 30th instructional | ||
| day after the first day the school does not have a full-time nurse, | ||
| school counselor, or librarian assigned to be present at the | ||
| school. | ||
| (g) The school shall: | ||
| (1) make a good faith effort to ensure that the notice | ||
| required by this section is provided in a bilingual form to any | ||
| parent or other person standing in parental relation whose primary | ||
| language is not English; and | ||
| (2) retain a copy of any notice provided under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (h) A school may satisfy the notice requirement under | ||
| Subsection (f) by posting the notice on the school's Internet | ||
| website. Notice posted under this subsection must be accessible | ||
| from the home page of the Internet website by use of not more than | ||
| three links. | ||
| (i) This section does not apply to a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school with a student enrollment of less | ||
| than 10,000 students. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 196 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 2, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 12; and that the | ||
| Senate concurred in House amendment on May 26, 2017, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 12. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 196 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 80, | ||
| Nays 63, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
