Bill Text: VA HB1729 | 2019 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 25-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-02-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) [HB1729 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2019-HB1729-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1729 Offered January 9, 2019 Prefiled December 19, 2018 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-291.1:1, relating to school counselors; staff time. ---------- Patron-- Landes ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-291.1:1 as follows:

§22.1-291.1:1. School counselors; staff time.

Each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school shall spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students.