By: Dear H.B. No. 1921 73R1875 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the successful schools award system. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 34.002(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (a) The governor may present a financial award to the 1-7 schools or districts that the commissioner determines have achieved 1-8 and maintained or have demonstrated the greatest improvement in 1-9 achieving the educational goals. For each student in average daily 1-10 attendance, each of those schools or districts is entitled to an 1-11 amount set for the award for which the school or district is 1-12 selected by the commissioner, subject to any limitation set by the 1-13 commissioner on the total amount that may be awarded to a school or 1-14 district. 1-15 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 34, Education Code, is 1-16 amended by adding Section 34.009 to read as follows: 1-17 Sec. 34.009. REPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE AND SUCCESSFUL 1-18 PRACTICES. (a) The commissioner of education may grant additional 1-19 funds to a school or school district that has received a successful 1-20 school award if the school or school district agrees to provide 1-21 peer assistance and support to other schools that wish to replicate 1-22 innovative practices that have proved to be successful in 1-23 increasing student achievement. 1-24 (b) In determining which schools are to receive funds under 2-1 this section, the commissioner shall give preference to schools and 2-2 districts that have successfully phased out below-level courses or 2-3 have implemented accelerated instruction programs that have 2-4 resulted in higher scores on state assessment instruments. 2-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-6 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.