84R71 EAH-D
 
  By: Lucio S.B. No. 164
 
 
 
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 may include with the notice
  required by Subsection (a) information regarding when a school
  counselor is available at the campus.
         (d)  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.
         (e)  The commissioner may adopt necessary rules regarding
  the notice required by this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
  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, 2015.