73R945 CMB-D
          By Naishtat                                            H.B. No. 986
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to staffing and funding of the Texas School for the Deaf.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 11.063, Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 11.063.  STAFFING AND FUNDING OF TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE
    1-7  BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND THE TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.  (a)
    1-8  With the concurrence of the Board of the Texas School for the Blind
    1-9  and Visually Impaired or the Texas School for the Deaf, the
   1-10  superintendent of the respective school is authorized to adopt a
   1-11  salary structure for the school with maximum levels not to exceed
   1-12  an amount equivalent to the maximum salary levels of the five local
   1-13  independent school districts offering the highest salaries, and not
   1-14  less than those of the Austin Independent School District,
   1-15  including consideration of employee benefits, being paid to staff
   1-16  employed for the special education of children with severely
   1-17  disabling handicaps.
   1-18        (b)  The funding of the Texas School for the Blind and
   1-19  Visually Impaired or the Texas School for the Deaf shall consist
   1-20  of:
   1-21              (1)  such amounts as might be specifically appropriated
   1-22  to the school by the legislature;
   1-23              (2)  such sums which the Central Education Agency makes
   1-24  available to the school pursuant to other provisions of this code;
    2-1              (3)  budgets developed through contracts and
    2-2  agreements;
    2-3              (4)  amounts received through gifts and bequests; and
    2-4              (5)  payments from local school districts in amounts
    2-5  provided by Section 21.507 of this code.
    2-6        <(c)  All amounts whatsoever and howsoever received by the
    2-7  Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired are hereby
    2-8  appropriated for expenditure in relation to the functions and
    2-9  purposes of the school as set forth in Section 11.062 of this
   2-10  code.>
   2-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.