H.B. No. 2827
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the transfer to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
  Board of certain responsibilities relating to postsecondary
  education and career counseling.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 33.009(a), (b), (c), (e), (h), and (i),
  Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  In this section, "coordinating board" ["center"] means
  the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board [Center for Teaching
  and Learning at The University of Texas at Austin].
         (b)  The coordinating board [center] shall develop and make
  available postsecondary education and career counseling academies
  for school counselors and other postsecondary advisors employed by
  a school district at a middle school, junior high school, or high
  school.
         (c)  In developing academies under this section, the
  coordinating board [center] shall solicit input from the agency,
  school counselors, the Texas Workforce Commission, institutions of
  higher education, and business, community, and school leaders.
         (e)  The coordinating board [center] shall develop an online
  instructional program that school districts may use in providing
  the instruction in high school, college, and career preparation
  required by Section 28.016. The program must be structured for use
  as part of an existing course.
         (h)  From funds appropriated for that purpose, a school
  counselor who attends the academy under this section is entitled to
  receive a stipend in the amount determined by the coordinating
  board [center]. If funds are available after all eligible school
  counselors have received a stipend under this subsection, the
  coordinating board [center] shall pay a stipend in the amount
  determined by the coordinating board [center] to a teacher who
  attends the academy under this section. A stipend received under
  this subsection is not considered in determining whether a district
  is paying the school counselor or teacher the minimum monthly
  salary under Section 21.402.
         (i)  From available funds appropriated for purposes of this
  section, the coordinating board [center] may provide to school
  counselors and other educators curricula, instructional materials,
  and technological tools relating to postsecondary education and
  career counseling.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 33.009(f) and (j), Education Code, are
  repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2827 was passed by the House on April
  30, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 115, Nays 26, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2827 was passed by the Senate on May
  26, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor