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.