By:  Junell                                            H.B. No. 998
       73R4909 ESH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the date on which certain payments under the foundation
    1-3  school program are made.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 16.260, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  Notwithstanding Subsections (c)(5) and (d)(2) of this
    1-8  section, and except as otherwise provided by this subsection, a
    1-9  payment from the foundation school fund to a school district for
   1-10  August 1995 shall be made on September 1, 1995.  If the
   1-11  commissioner of education determines that a school district will
   1-12  experience extreme hardship if the payment is delayed under this
   1-13  subsection, the payment to that district may be made on or before
   1-14  August 25, 1995.  This subsection expires September 2, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.