By:  Williamson                                       H.B. No. 2093
       73R6468 SRC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to restructuring the administration and financing of
    1-3  public schools.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  If the constitutional amendment proposed by
    1-6  Section 1, S.J.R. No. 7, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
    1-7  Session, 1993, is not adopted by the voters:
    1-8              (1)  funds from the foundation school fund shall be
    1-9  allocated to schools in a manner proposed by the State Board of
   1-10  Education and approved by concurrent resolution of the legislature;
   1-11  and
   1-12              (2)  school districts are exempt from regulatory
   1-13  requirements that are identified by the State Board of Education as
   1-14  impediments to the efficient operation of the public schools,
   1-15  subject to the approval of a list of those requirements by
   1-16  concurrent resolution of the legislature.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Those provisions of the Education Code in
   1-18  conflict with the funding and administrative structure of public
   1-19  schools approved by the legislature under Section 1 of this Act are
   1-20  repealed, including applicable provisions of Chapters 15, 16, 20,
   1-21  21, and 23, Education Code.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  It is the intent of this Act to provide for a
   1-23  complete restructuring of the administration and financing of the
   1-24  public schools in a manner consistent with the constitution of the
    2-1  State of Texas and in a manner that maximizes savings of public
    2-2  funds through increasing the efficiency of the operation of the
    2-3  public school system.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.