By Price                                              H.B. No. 1230
       74R5482 KKA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to funding academic and extracurricular programs conducted
    1-3  by school districts before and after the regular school day.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 11.2093 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.2093.  FUNDING OF EXTENDED-DAY ACADEMIC AND
    1-8  EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAMS.  The Central Education Agency may
    1-9  allocate money to a school district to fund an extended-day
   1-10  academic or extracurricular program if:
   1-11              (1)  the district demonstrates that the program is
   1-12  conducted at a district facility not more than two hours before or
   1-13  three hours after the regular school day; and
   1-14              (2)  money appropriated specifically for this section
   1-15  is available.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.