TO: | Honorable Jimmie Don Aycock, Chair, House Committee on Public Education |
FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB715 by Lucio (Relating to counselors employed by school districts, including the use of consistent terminology in the Education Code to refer to school counselors and a license requirement for licensed professional counselors employed by school districts.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted |
The bill would amend statutory references to counselors in the Education Code to school counselors.
The bill would provide that a person could not be employed as a licensed professional counselor in a school district unless they held the appropriate credential from the appropriate state agency and held the appropriate certification.
The provisions of the bill would require an amendment of the State Board for Educator Certification rule.
Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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LBB Staff: | UP, JBi, JSc
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