H.B. No. 986
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.