Substitute Senate Bill No. 956
Public Act No. 19-63
AN ACT CONCERNING GU IDELINES FOR A COMPR EHENSIVE
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 July 1, 2020,
the State Board of Education, in collaboration with a state-wide
association that represents school counselors, shall adopt guidelines
for a comprehensive school counseling program. Such guidelines shall
ensure that all students have access to a comprehensive school
counseling program that provides academic, social-emotional and
post-secondary and career readiness programming by a certified
school counselor with adequate training. The state board shall make
the guidelines available to local and regional boards of education and
published on the Internet web site of the Department of Education.