Bill Text: TX SB406 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 406 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 [SB406 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB406-Introduced.html

	82R1208 EAH-F

	By: Lucio	S.B. No. 406



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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) A public school, including an open-enrollment
	charter school, that 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 shall provide written notice of the absence of a
	counselor to the parent of or other person standing in parental
	relation to each student enrolled in the school.
	(b) The principal of the school shall provide 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 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.
	(d) The commissioner may adopt necessary rules regarding
	notice to a parent or other person standing in parental relation of
	the absence of a school counselor at the campus.
	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.