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.