SB 341 - HB 1130
FISCAL NOTE
Fiscal Review Committee
Tennessee General Assembly
March 15, 2025
Fiscal Analyst: Alan Hampton | Email: alan.hampton@capitol.tn.gov | Phone: 615-741-2564
SB 341 - HB 1130
SUMMARY OF BILL: Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to allocate to each
local education agency (LEA) sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed
professional school counselor position at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600
students in grades 10-12. Authorizes an LEA to use funding from the DOE to employ an additional
part-time or full-time school counselor or to supplant the cost to LEAs that employ school
counselors under certain conditions. Requires each LEA to employ one full-time licensed
professional school counselor at each high school for which the LEA receives such funding from
the department.
Requires the State Board of Education promulgate rules to establish the amount of time each full-
time licensed professional school counselor whose position is funded pursuant to this act must
dedicate to providing high school students counseling services required; provided, that each full-time
licensed professional school counselor must dedicate at least 70 percent of the counselor's time to
working directly with high school students.
FISCAL IMPACT:
STATE GOVERNMENT
EXPENDITURES General Fund
FY25-26 & Subsequent Years $10,369,900
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
REVENUE Mandatory
FY25-26 & Subsequent Years $10,369,900
EXPENDITURES Mandatory
FY25-26 & Subsequent Years $10,369,900
Article II, Section 24 of the Tennessee Constitution provides that: no law of general application shall impose increased expenditure
requirements on cities or counties unless the General Assembly shall provide that the state share in the cost.
Assumptions:
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• The proposed legislation requires LEAs to allocate funding received from the DOE for
full-time licensed professional school counselors as follows:
o One full-time licensed professional school counselor position at each high school in
the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades 10-12;
o To employ a part-time school counselor on a full-time basis if an LEA employs one
or more part-time school counselors at a high school that enrolls at least 600
students in grades 10-12; and
o To supplant the cost to the LEA of employing the number of full-time licensed
professional school counselors required to meet the specified ratio, if an LEA
employs one school counselor for every 250 student members of the LEA.
• The proposed legislation specifies that the funds allocated to an LEA pursuant to this act
are in addition to the funds allocated to the LEA for the purposes of the Tennessee
Investment in Student Achievement (TISA); therefore, the allocation will be entirely state
funded.
• The average cost for an instructional position is estimated to be $76,814 ($57,755 salary +
$19,059 benefits).
• Based on 135 schools with more than 600 students in grades 10-12, the cost to fund 135
counselors will increase state expenditures by $10,369,890 ($76,814 x 135).
• Six districts employ counselors at a ratio of 1:250 per average daily membership (ADM).
These districts would be able to use any funding received pursuant to the proposed
legislation to supplant the cost to the LEA of employing the number of counselors required
to meet the specified ratio.
• The SBE will promulgate rules using existing staff and resources, without an increase in
state expenditures.
• The total increase in state expenditures and corresponding increases in local revenue and
expenditures is estimated to be $10,369,890 in FY25-26 and subsequent years.
CERTIFICATION:
The information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
Bojan Savic, Executive Director