1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 518
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 2, 2001; February 5, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     March 12, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 12, 2001,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 518             By:  Van de Putte
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to public school counselors.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 33.001, Education Code, is amended to
1-13     read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 33.001.  APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER.  This subchapter
1-15     applies only to a school district that receives funds as provided
1-16     by Section 42.152(i), except that Sections 33.003-33.006 apply to
1-17     all school districts.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 33.005, Education Code, is amended to
1-19     read as follows:
1-20           Sec. 33.005.  DEVELOPMENTAL GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING PROGRAMS.
1-21     A school counselor [person employed as required by Section 33.002]
1-22     shall work with the school faculty and staff, students, parents,
1-23     and the community to plan, implement, and evaluate a developmental
1-24     guidance and counseling program.  The counselor shall design the
1-25     program to include:
1-26                 (1)  a guidance curriculum to help students develop
1-27     their full educational potential;
1-28                 (2)  a responsive services component to intervene on
1-29     behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems
1-30     put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or
1-31     social development at risk;
1-32                 (3)  an individual planning system to guide a student
1-33     as the student plans, monitors, and manages the student's own
1-34     educational, career, personal, and social development; and
1-35                 (4)  system support to support the efforts of teachers,
1-36     staff, parents, and other members of the community in promoting the
1-37     educational, career, personal, and social development of students.
1-38           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
1-39     school year.
1-40           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-41     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-42     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-43     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-44     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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