Bill Text: TX HB18 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to measures to support public school student academic achievement and high school, college, and career preparation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB18-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to measures to support public school student academic achievement and high school, college, and career preparation.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB18-Engrossed.html
By: Aycock | H.B. No. 18 |
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relating to college and career readiness training for certain | ||
public school counselors and postsecondary advisors. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 33.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.009. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION AND CAREER COUNSELING | ||
ACADEMIES. (a) In this section, "center" means the Center for | ||
Teaching and Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. | ||
(b) The 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 center | ||
shall solicit input from the agency, school counselors, the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission, institutions of higher education, and | ||
business, community, and school leaders. | ||
(d) An academy developed under this section must provide | ||
counselors and other postsecondary advisors with knowledge and | ||
skills to provide counseling to students regarding postsecondary | ||
success and productive career planning and must include information | ||
relating to: | ||
(1) each endorsement described by Section | ||
28.025(c-1), including: | ||
(A) the course requirements for each | ||
endorsement; and | ||
(B) the postsecondary educational and career | ||
opportunities associated with each endorsement; | ||
(2) available methods for a student to earn credit for | ||
a course not offered at the school in which the student is enrolled, | ||
including enrollment in an electronic course provided through the | ||
state virtual school network under Chapter 30A; | ||
(3) general academic performance requirements for | ||
admission to an institution of higher education, including the | ||
requirements for automatic admission to a general academic teaching | ||
institution under Section 51.803; | ||
(4) regional workforce needs, including information | ||
about the required education and the average wage or salary for | ||
careers that meet those workforce needs; and | ||
(5) effective strategies for engaging students and | ||
parents in planning for postsecondary education and potential | ||
careers, including participation in mentorships and business | ||
partnerships. | ||
(e) 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 center. A stipend | ||
received under this subsection is not considered in determining | ||
whether a district is paying the school counselor the minimum | ||
monthly salary under Section 21.402. | ||
(f) | ||
From available funds appropriated for purposes of this | ||
section, the center may provide to school counselors and other | ||
educators curricula, instructional materials, and technological | ||
tools relating to postsecondary education and career counseling. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2015. |