By: Brady H.B. No. 1804 73R1020 CMB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the allocation of funds to school districts that 1-3 experience significant unanticipated increases in the enrollment of 1-4 nonhandicapped students residing in residential facilities. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 16.152, Education Code, is amended by 1-7 adding Subsections (m) and (n) to read as follows: 1-8 (m) From the total amount of funds appropriated for 1-9 allotments under this section, the commissioner of education may 1-10 withhold an amount not exceeding $1,000,000 each fiscal year and 1-11 distribute the funds to school districts that incur unanticipated 1-12 expenditures resulting from a significant increase in the 1-13 enrollment of nonhandicapped students who reside in residential 1-14 placement facilities. 1-15 (n) After deducting the amount withheld under Subsection (m) 1-16 of this section from the total amount appropriated for the 1-17 allotment under Subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner of 1-18 education shall reduce each district's allotment under Subsection 1-19 (a) proportionately. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.