bill to make districts report counselor hours spent on testing

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90R350 MEW-F

By: González of El Paso
H.B. No. 320

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to required reporting regarding a school district's school

counseling program.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 39.306(d-1), Education Code, is amended

to read as follows:

(d-1) The report must also include :

(1) the number of school counselors providing

counseling services at each campus ;

(2) the average number of hours a school counselor

spent on:

(A) duties that are components of a counseling

program developed under Section 33.005; and

(B) duties that are not components of a

counseling program described by Paragraph (A), including the

average number of hours spent administering or providing assistance

in connection with assessment instruments, except for time spent

interpreting data from assessment instruments;

(3) the findings, conclusions, and other relevant

information from the district's assessment of the district's

compliance with the policy adopted under Section 33.006(d) required

under Subsection (h) of that section; and

(4) based on the information included in the report

under Subdivisions (1), (2), and (3), an evaluation of the

district's school counseling program .

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2027-2028

school year.

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, 2027.