1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 8 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 13, 1995; January 16, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 January 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 12, Nays 0; January 18, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the distribution of certain state funds appropriated 1-9 for education and certain statewide retirement systems. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 16.260, Education Code, 1-12 is repealed. 1-13 SECTION 2. Sections 403.0935 and 403.0936, Government Code, 1-14 are repealed. 1-15 SECTION 3. Sections 5 and 6, Chapter 39, Acts of the 73rd 1-16 Legislature, 1993, are repealed. 1-17 SECTION 4. For the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, the 1-18 estimated amount appropriated for the purpose provided by Item 1-19 A.1.1 of the appropriation to the State Employees Retirement 1-20 Program in the current General Appropriations Act (page I-99, 1-21 Chapter 1051, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993) is increased from 1-22 $161,352,490 to $225,852,490. 1-23 SECTION 5. For the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, the 1-24 estimated amount appropriated for the purpose provided by Item 1-25 A.1.1 of the appropriation to the Teacher Retirement System of 1-26 Texas in the current General Appropriations Act (page III-29, 1-27 Chapter 1051, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993) is increased from 1-28 $741,373,715 to $986,656,715. 1-29 SECTION 6. An increase in an appropriation under Section 4 1-30 or 5 of this Act is funded from the same funds and accounts from 1-31 which the original appropriation was funded. 1-32 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *