School Counselors

Changed the status of school counselors from being fully exempt from educator certification requirements to being exempt only if the school district does not impose additional employment conditions.

Updated the bill title and versioning to reflect that this is a second committee substitute (CS/CS) rather than the first (CS).

Adjusted page numbering from 4 pages to 5 pages and updated the internal document identifier from hb753-01-c1 to hb753-02-c2.

The bill now requires that certified school counselor evaluations be based on the Florida School Counseling Standards, replacing the original focus on certification exemptions.

New provisions were added to mandate that at least one-third of a school counselor's annual evaluation must be based on indicators of the Florida School Counseling Standards.

The specific exemption for certified school counselors from certain educator certification requirements was removed from the bill text.

The bill was restructured to include evaluation procedures for all instructional personnel, not just school counselors, while adding specific criteria for counselors.