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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 956
January Session, 2019
AN ACT CONCERNING GU IDELINES FOR A COMPREHENSIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELOR PRO GRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) Not later than January 1, 1
2020, the State Board of Education, in collaboration with a state-wide 2
association that represents school counselors, shall adopt guidelines 3
for a comprehensive school counseling program. Such guidelines shall 4
ensure that all students have access to a comprehensive school 5
counseling program that provides academic, social-emotional and 6
post-secondary and career readiness programming by a certified 7
school counselor with adequate training. The state board shall make 8
the guidelines available to local and regional boards of education and 9
published on the Internet web site of the Department of Education. 10
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
The title was changed to accurately reflect the contents of the bill and
in Section 1, "the Connecticut School Counselor Association" was
replaced with "a state-wide association that represents school
counselors" for consistency with standard drafting conventions.
ED Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO