The bill makes several changes to the existing school counselor corps grant program (program), including:

• Extending the eligibility to all middle and high schools;
• Extending the length of the grant cycle from 3 to 4 years;
• Increasing the total annual grant amount from $5 million to $10 million;
• Requiring grantees to use nationally established guidelines and standards to implement a time and effort assessment, postsecondary workforce-ready programming, and social and emotional counseling work;
• Requiring grantees to use nationally established and accepted models for accountability;
• Requiring the department of education (department) and state board of education to take into consideration recommendations from the school counselor advisory board regarding grant awards and to give priority when awarding grants to schools:
• With higher-than-average remediation rates, numbers of first-generation students applying to postsecondary schools, numbers of at-risk students at the school, and dropout rates;
• In underserved geographic locations; and
• With lower-than-average counselor-to-school ratios; and
• Requiring the department to establish guidelines for the school counselor corps advisory board's duties, membership, and responsibilities.