Tex. Educ. Code § 33.005 · Subchapter A. SCHOOL COUNSELORS AND COUNSELING PROGRAMS
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A school counselor shall work with the school faculty and staff, students, parents, and the community to plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive school counseling program that conforms to the most recent edition of the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs developed by the Texas Counseling Association.
(b) The school counselor shall design the program to include:
(1) a guidance curriculum to help students develop their full educational potential, including the student's interests and career objectives;
(2) a responsive services component to intervene on behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or social development at risk;
(3) an individual planning system to guide a student as the student plans, monitors, and manages the student's own educational, career, personal, and social development; and
(4) system support to support the efforts of teachers, staff, parents, and other members of the community in promoting the educational, career, personal, and social development of students.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1487, Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 443 (S.B. 715), Sec. 29, eff. June 14, 2013.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 352 (H.B. 18), Sec. 1.11, eff. December 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.33.htm
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- sha256 0c34c26bf687ead53a28ba27a8fb373703c455ee48e66db1ef21e6c6cdee41bf
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 6 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Educ. Code § 33.005. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Education Code
- Tex. Educ. Code § 11.252DISTRICT-LEVEL PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING.Printed as Section 33.005
- Tex. Educ. Code § 21.054CONTINUING EDUCATION.Printed as Section 33.005
- Tex. Educ. Code § 28.004LOCAL SCHOOL HEALTH ADVISORY COUNCIL AND HEALTH EDUCATION INSTRUCTION.Printed as Section 33.005
- Tex. Educ. Code § 33.004PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.Printed as Section 33.005
- Tex. Educ. Code § 33.006SCHOOL COUNSELORS; GENERAL DUTIES.Printed as Section 33.005
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