S.B. No. 297
AN ACT
1-1 relating to funding for school counseling programs.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (j), Section 16.152, Education Code,
1-4 is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (j) From the total amount of funds appropriated for
1-6 allotments under this section, the commissioner of education shall,
1-7 each fiscal year, withhold $7,500,000 or a greater amount as
1-8 determined in the General Appropriations Act <the amount of
1-9 $5,000,000> and distribute that amount for programs under
1-10 Subchapter V, Chapter 21, of this code. A program established
1-11 under that subchapter is required only in school districts in which
1-12 the program is financed by funds distributed under this section or
1-13 other funds distributed by the commissioner for a program under
1-14 that subchapter. In distributing those funds, preference shall be
1-15 given to a school district that received funds for a program under
1-16 this subsection for the preceding school year.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-18 school year.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.