By: Barrientos S.B. No. 297
73R3281 CAE-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to funding for school counseling programs.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 16.152(j), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (j) From the total amount of funds appropriated for
1-7 allotments under this section, the commissioner of education shall,
1-8 each fiscal year, withhold not less than $7,500,000 <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.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-16 school year.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.