By: Lucio, et al. S.B. No. 401
(Allen)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a notification requirement if a school counselor is not
assigned to a public school campus.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 33.008 to read as follows:
Sec. 33.008. PARENTAL NOTIFICATION CONCERNING SCHOOL
COUNSELORS. (a) If a public school, including an open-enrollment
charter school, does not have a full-time school counselor
certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, assigned to the campus
for more than 30 consecutive instructional days during the same
school year, notice of the absence of a school counselor must be
posted on the Internet website of:
(1) the school district; and
(2) the school, if the school maintains an Internet
website.
(b) The district and the school shall post the notice
required by Subsection (a) not later than the 30th instructional
day after the first day the school does not have a full-time school
counselor assigned to the campus.
(c) The district and the school shall:
(1) make a good faith effort to ensure that the notice
required by this section is provided in a bilingual form; and
(2) retain a copy of any notice provided under this
section.
(d) The commissioner may adopt necessary rules regarding
the notice required by this section.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
school year.
SECTION 3. 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.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
Amend S.B. No. 401 (engrossed version) as follows:
(1) On page 1, line 9, strike "full-time".
(2) On page 1, line 10, strike "assigned" and substitute
"available".
(3) On page 1, line 19, strike "full-time".
(4) On page 1, line 20
, strike "assigned" and substitute
"available".
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