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HOUSE BILL NO. 1729 Offered January 9, 2019 Prefiled December 19, 2018 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-291.1:1, relating to school counselors; staff time. ----------
Patrons-- Landes, Bloxom, Byron, Campbell, R.R., Cox, Fowler, Head, Hugo, Kilgore, LaRock, Leftwich, Marshall, McGuire, McNamara, Murphy, Orrock, Peace, Ransone, Robinson, Rush, Thomas, Ware, Webert, Wilt, Wright and Yancey; Senators: Boysko and Favola
---------- Referred to Committee on Education ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-291.1:1 as follows:

§ 22.1-291.1:1. School counselors; staff time.

Each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school shall spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students.