Bill Text: TX SB490 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to school counselors in public schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [SB490 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB490-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to school counselors in public schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [SB490 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB490-Comm_Sub.html
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 490 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 13, 2017; February 6, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Education; | ||
March 27, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 1; March 27, 2017, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 490 | By: West |
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relating to information regarding the number of school counselors | ||
in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.306, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
(d-1) The report must also include the number of school | ||
counselors providing counseling services at each campus. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.006, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a-2) The commissioner by rule shall require each school | ||
district and open-enrollment charter school to report through the | ||
Public Education Information Management System information | ||
regarding the availability of school counselors at each campus. | ||
The commissioner's rules shall require a district or school to | ||
report the number of full-time equivalent school counselors | ||
providing counseling services at a campus. For purposes of this | ||
subsection, "full-time equivalent school counselor" means 40 hours | ||
of counseling services a week. The agency shall maintain the | ||
information provided in accordance with this subsection. | ||
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. | ||
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