1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 297
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 1993; February 10, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 March 24, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; March 24, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to funding for school counseling programs.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Subsection (j), Section 16.152, Education Code,
1-24 is amended to read as follows:
1-25 (j) From the total amount of funds appropriated for
1-26 allotments under this section, the commissioner of education shall,
1-27 each fiscal year, withhold not less than $7,500,000 <the amount of
1-28 $5,000,000> and distribute that amount for programs under
1-29 Subchapter V, Chapter 21, of this code. A program established
1-30 under that subchapter is required only in school districts in which
1-31 the program is financed by funds distributed under this section or
1-32 other funds distributed by the commissioner for a program under
1-33 that subchapter.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
1-35 school year.
1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-43 * * * * *
1-44 Austin,
1-45 Texas
1-46 March 24, 1993
1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-48 President of the Senate
1-49 Sir:
1-50 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 297,
1-51 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-52 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-53 pass and be printed.
1-54 Ratliff,
1-55 Chairman
1-56 * * * * *
1-57 WITNESSES
1-58 FOR AGAINST ON
1-59 ___________________________________________________________________
1-60 Name: Michael Sanchez x
1-61 Representing: Tx Assoc of School Admin
1-62 City: Austin
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1-64 Name: Lamont Veatch x
1-65 Representing: Tx Assoc of Sec School
1-66 Princi
1-67 City: Austin
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2-1 Name: Brad Duggan x
2-2 Representing: Tx Elem Principals & Super
2-3 City: Austin
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2-5 Name: Sandy Kibby x
2-6 Representing: Tx PTA
2-7 City: Austin
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2-9 Name: G. K. Sprinkle x
2-10 Representing: Tx Counseling
2-11 City: Austin
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2-13 Name: Mary Lynn Tinkle x
2-14 Representing: Tenaha ISD
2-15 City: Center
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2-17 Name: Ann Fickle x
2-18 Representing: Tx Classroom Teachers Assoc
2-19 City: Austin
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2-21 Name: Jack Kelly x
2-22 Representing: TSTA
2-23 City: Austin
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2-25 Name: Walter Hinojosa x
2-26 Representing: Tx Federation of Teachers
2-27 City: Austin
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2-29 Name: Dan Casey x
2-30 Representing: Tx Assoc of School Boards
2-31 City: Austin
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