A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to adopt rules regarding the duties of school counselors and to appropriate funds for that purpose.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules regarding the duties of school counselors.  These rules shall clarify the role of counselors in the schools and shall provide that counselors spend no more than twenty percent (20%) of their time on administrative duties.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Board of Education the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to adopt rules regarding school counselors in accordance with Section 1 of this act and to ensure that the rules are applied uniformly throughout the State.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2002.