By Dear                                               H.B. No. 1634
       74R2635 KKA-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(k), Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (k)  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 $15,000,000 <$7,500,000> or a greater
    1-9  amount as determined in the General Appropriations Act and
   1-10  distribute that amount for programs under Subchapter V, Chapter 21,
   1-11  of this code.  A program established under that subchapter is
   1-12  required only in school districts in which the program is financed
   1-13  by funds distributed under this section or other funds distributed
   1-14  by the commissioner for a program under that subchapter.  In
   1-15  distributing those funds, preference shall be given to a school
   1-16  district that received funds for a program under this subsection
   1-17  for the preceding school year.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.