By:  Johnson                                          H.B. No. 2335
       73R792 SHS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the establishment and financing of a school-community
    1-3  guidance center.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.603, Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 21.603.  Cooperation of Governmental Agencies.  (a)
    1-8  Each governmental agency concerned with children in the school
    1-9  district shall cooperate with the school-community guidance centers
   1-10  on the request of the superintendent of schools and shall designate
   1-11  liaison persons to work with the centers in identifying and
   1-12  correcting problems affecting school-age children in the district.
   1-13        (b)  A county, juvenile board, or other governmental agency
   1-14  concerned with children in a school district may establish or
   1-15  finance a school-community guidance center jointly with the school
   1-16  district according to terms approved by the governing body of each
   1-17  entity participating in the joint establishment or financing of the
   1-18  center.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.