By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 518
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to public school counselors.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 33.001, Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 33.001.  APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER.  This subchapter
 1-7     applies only to a school district that receives funds as provided
 1-8     by Section 42.152(i), except that Sections 33.003-33.006 apply to
 1-9     all school districts.
1-10           SECTION 2.  Section 33.005, Education Code, is amended to
1-11     read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 33.005.  DEVELOPMENTAL GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING PROGRAMS.
1-13     A school counselor [person employed as required by Section 33.002]
1-14     shall work with the school faculty and staff, students, parents,
1-15     and the community to plan, implement, and evaluate a developmental
1-16     guidance and counseling program.  The counselor shall design the
1-17     program to include:
1-18                 (1)  a guidance curriculum to help students develop
1-19     their full educational potential;
1-20                 (2)  a responsive services component to intervene on
1-21     behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems
1-22     put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or
1-23     social development at risk;
1-24                 (3)  an individual planning system to guide a student
1-25     as the student plans, monitors, and manages the student's own
 2-1     educational, career, personal, and social development; and
 2-2                 (4)  system support to support the efforts of teachers,
 2-3     staff, parents, and other members of the community in promoting the
 2-4     educational, career, personal, and social development of students.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
 2-6     school year.
 2-7           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 2-8     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 2-9     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-10     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-11     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.