Bill Text: TX SB405 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a notification requirement if a counselor is not assigned to a public school campus.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-02 - Referred to Education [SB405 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB405-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 405 | |
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| relating to a notification requirement if a counselor is not | ||
| assigned to a public school campus. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.008. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING SCHOOL | ||
| COUNSELORS. (a) If a public school, including an open-enrollment | ||
| charter school, does not have a full-time school counselor | ||
| certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, assigned to the campus | ||
| for more than 30 consecutive instructional days during the same | ||
| school year, notice of the absence of a counselor must be posted on | ||
| the Internet website of: | ||
| (1) the school district; and | ||
| (2) the school, if the school maintains an Internet | ||
| website. | ||
| (b) The district and the school shall post the notice | ||
| required by Subsection (a) not later than the 30th instructional | ||
| day after the first day the school does not have a full-time school | ||
| counselor assigned to the campus. | ||
| (c) The district and the school shall: | ||
| (1) make a good faith effort to ensure that the notice | ||
| required by this section is provided in a bilingual form; and | ||
| (2) retain a copy of any notice provided under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may adopt necessary rules regarding | ||
| the notice required by this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2011-2012 | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
