By Raymond, Hernandez                                  H.B. No. 587
       74R3067 ESH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to payments to school districts from the foundation school
    1-3  fund.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 16.260(b), (c), and (d), Education Code,
    1-6  are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Payments from the foundation school fund to each
    1-8  category 1 school district shall be made as follows:
    1-9              (1)  15 <21> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   1-10  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
   1-11  to be made on or before the 25th day of September <and October> of
   1-12  a fiscal year;
   1-13              (2)  80 <57> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   1-14  district shall be paid in eight <six> equal installments to be made
   1-15  on or before the 25th day of October, November, December, January,
   1-16  <February,> March, May, June, and July; and
   1-17              (3)  five <22> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   1-18  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
   1-19  to be made on or before the 25th day of February <April and May>.
   1-20        (c)  Payments from the foundation school fund to each
   1-21  category 2 school district shall be made as follows:
   1-22              (1)  22 <21> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   1-23  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
   1-24  to be made on or before the 25th day of September <and October> of
    2-1  a fiscal year;
    2-2              (2)  18 <38> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
    2-3  district shall be paid in an installment <four equal installments>
    2-4  to be made on or before the 25th day of October <November,
    2-5  December, March, and July>;
    2-6              (3)  9.5 <seven> percent of the yearly entitlement of
    2-7  the district shall be paid in an installment <two equal
    2-8  installments> to be made on or before the 25th day of November
    2-9  <January and February>;
   2-10              (4)  7.5 <22> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   2-11  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
   2-12  to be made on or before the 25th day of April <and May>; <and>
   2-13              (5)  five <12> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   2-14  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
   2-15  to be made on or before the 25th day of May <June and August>;
   2-16              (6)  10 percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   2-17  district shall be paid in an installment to be made on or before
   2-18  the 25th day of June;
   2-19              (7)  13 percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   2-20  district shall be paid in an installment to be made on or before
   2-21  the 25th day of July; and
   2-22              (8)  15 percent of the yearly entitlement of the
   2-23  district shall be paid in an installment to be made on or before
   2-24  the 25th day of August.
   2-25        (d)  Payments from the foundation school fund to each
   2-26  category 3 school district shall be made as follows:
   2-27              (1)  45 <21> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
    3-1  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
    3-2  to be made on or before the 25th day of September <and October> of
    3-3  a fiscal year;
    3-4              (2)  35 <57> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
    3-5  district shall be paid in an installment <six equal installments>
    3-6  to be made on or before the 25th day of October <November,
    3-7  December, March, June, July, and August>; and
    3-8              (3)  20 <22> percent of the yearly entitlement of the
    3-9  district shall be paid in an installment <two equal installments>
   3-10  to be made on or before the 25th day of August <April and May>.
   3-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   3-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.