Bill Text: TX HB233 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to social work services in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB233-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to social work services in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB233-Introduced.html
| By: Farrar | H.B. No. 233 | |
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| relating to school social work services in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.905 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.905. SOCIAL WORK SERVICES. (a) Social work | ||
| services are specialized to assist students and families and are | ||
| designed to alleviate barriers; link home, school, and community; | ||
| promote advocacy; strengthen relationships; and assist with basic, | ||
| psychosocial, and academic needs. | ||
| (b) School social workers provide social work services to | ||
| students and families in a school or | ||
| district. | ||
| (c) A social worker employed by a school district shall | ||
| collaborate with school administrators and other school | ||
| professionals in order to enhance students' learning environments. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
