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and administrative structure of public 1-19 schools approved by the legislature under Section 1 of this Act are 1-20 repealed, including applicable provisions of Chapters 15, 16, 20, 1-21 21, and 23, Education Code. 1-22 SECTION 3.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.