By:  Haley                                             S.B. No. 663
       73R1875 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the successful schools award system.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 34.002(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The governor may present a financial award to the
    1-7  schools or districts that the commissioner determines have achieved
    1-8  and maintained or have demonstrated the greatest improvement in
    1-9  achieving the educational goals.  For each student in average daily
   1-10  attendance, each of those schools or districts is entitled to an
   1-11  amount set for the award for which the school or district is
   1-12  selected by the commissioner, subject to any limitation set by the
   1-13  commissioner on the total amount that may be awarded to a school or
   1-14  district.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 34, Education Code, is
   1-16  amended by adding Section 34.009 to read as follows:
   1-17        Sec. 34.009.  REPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE AND SUCCESSFUL
   1-18  PRACTICES.  (a)  The commissioner of education may grant additional
   1-19  funds to a school or school district that has received a successful
   1-20  school award if the school or school district agrees to provide
   1-21  peer assistance and support to other schools that wish to replicate
   1-22  innovative practices that have proved to be successful in
   1-23  increasing student achievement.
   1-24        (b)  In determining which schools are to receive funds under
    2-1  this section, the commissioner shall give preference to schools and
    2-2  districts that have successfully phased out below-level courses or
    2-3  have implemented accelerated instruction programs that have
    2-4  resulted in higher scores on state assessment instruments.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-6        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.