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.