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HB 1729 Guidance counselors; changes name to school counselors, staff time.
Introduced by: R. Steven Landes | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
School counselors; nomenclature; staff time. Changes the name of guidance counselors to school counselors and requires each school counselor employed by a school board in a public elementary or secondary school to spend at least 80 percent of his staff time during normal school hours in the direct counseling of individual students or groups of students.
FULL TEXT
- 12/19/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100598D pdf | impact statements
- 01/16/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19104768D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/13/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1729ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/19/18 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100598D
- 12/19/18 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/16/19 House: Reported from Education with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/16/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19104768D-H1
- 01/18/19 House: Read first time
- 01/21/19 House: Read second time
- 01/21/19 House: Committee substitute agreed to 19104768D-H1
- 01/21/19 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1729H1
- 01/22/19 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/23/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/07/19 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/11/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/19 House: Enrolled
- 02/13/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1729ER)
- 02/13/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/14/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/15/19 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- 02/15/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- 02/22/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 139 (effective 7/1/19)
- 02/22/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0139)