Bill Text: TX SB925 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a license requirement for licensed professional counselors employed by school districts.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Referred to Public Education [SB925 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB925-Engrossed.html
| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 925 | |
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| relating to a license requirement for licensed professional | ||
| counselors employed by school districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 21.002, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A school district shall employ each classroom teacher, | ||
| principal, librarian, nurse, or school counselor under: | ||
| (1) a probationary contract, as provided by Subchapter | ||
| C; | ||
| (2) a continuing contract, as provided by Subchapter | ||
| D; or | ||
| (3) a term contract, as provided by Subchapter E. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.003, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.003. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED. (a) A person may not | ||
| be employed as a teacher, teacher intern or teacher trainee, | ||
| librarian, educational aide, administrator, educational | ||
| diagnostician, or school counselor by a school district unless the | ||
| person holds an appropriate certificate or permit issued as | ||
| provided by Subchapter B. | ||
| (b) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, a | ||
| person may not be employed by a school district as an audiologist, | ||
| occupational therapist, physical therapist, physician, nurse, | ||
| school psychologist, associate school psychologist, licensed | ||
| professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, social | ||
| worker, or speech language pathologist unless the person is | ||
| licensed by the state agency that licenses that profession and may | ||
| perform specific services within those professions for a school | ||
| district only if the person holds the appropriate credential from | ||
| the appropriate state agency. As long as a person employed by a | ||
| district before September 1, 2011, to perform marriage and family | ||
| therapy, as defined by Section 502.002, Occupations Code, is | ||
| employed by the same district, the person is not required to hold a | ||
| license as a marriage and family therapist to perform marriage and | ||
| family therapy with that district. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 503.051, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 503.051. COUNSELING FOR GOVERNMENT OR EDUCATIONAL | ||
| INSTITUTION. This chapter does not apply to an activity, service, | ||
| or use of an official title by a person employed as a counselor by a | ||
| federal, state, county, or municipal agency or, except as provided | ||
| by Section 21.003(b), Education Code, by a public or private | ||
| educational institution if the person is performing counseling or | ||
| counseling-related activities within the scope of the person's | ||
| employment. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2013. | ||
