1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 986
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to staffing and funding of the Texas School for the Deaf.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 11.063, Education Code, is amended to
1-24 read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 11.063. STAFFING AND FUNDING OF TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE
1-26 BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND THE TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
1-27 (a) With the concurrence of the Board of the Texas School for the
1-28 Blind and Visually Impaired or the Texas School for the Deaf, the
1-29 superintendent of the respective school is authorized to adopt a
1-30 salary structure for the school with maximum levels not to exceed
1-31 an amount equivalent to the maximum salary levels of the five local
1-32 independent school districts offering the highest salaries, and not
1-33 less than those of the Austin Independent School District,
1-34 including consideration of employee benefits, being paid to staff
1-35 employed for the special education of children with severely
1-36 disabling handicaps.
1-37 (b) The funding of the Texas School for the Blind and
1-38 Visually Impaired or the Texas School for the Deaf shall consist
1-39 of:
1-40 (1) such amounts as might be specifically appropriated
1-41 to the school by the legislature;
1-42 (2) such sums which the Central Education Agency makes
1-43 available to the school pursuant to other provisions of this code;
1-44 (3) budgets developed through contracts and
1-45 agreements;
1-46 (4) amounts received through gifts and bequests; and
1-47 (5) payments from local school districts in amounts
1-48 provided by Section 21.507 of this code.
1-49 <(c) All amounts whatsoever and howsoever received by the
1-50 Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired are hereby
1-51 appropriated for expenditure in relation to the functions and
1-52 purposes of the school as set forth in Section 11.062 of this
1-53 code.>
1-54 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-55 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-56 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-57 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-58 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-59 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-60 * * * * *
1-61 Austin,
1-62 Texas
1-63 May 20, 1993
1-64 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-65 President of the Senate
1-66 Sir:
1-67 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B. No. 986,
1-68 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-1 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-2 pass and be printed.
2-3 Ratliff,
2-4 Chairman
2-5 * * * * *
2-6 WITNESSES
2-7 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 986.