S.B. No. 407
AN ACT
1-1 relating to making emergency appropriations for distribution of
1-2 state money to school districts and certain public institutions and
1-3 commissions and to emergency reductions in the current
1-4 appropriations to the Texas Department of Health.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. (a) On determination pursuant to Subsection (i),
1-7 Section 16.254, Education Code, of the actual amount of state funds
1-8 to which each school district is entitled for the 1994-1995 school
1-9 year and the amount of adjustment of each district's entitlement
1-10 for the next fiscal year, those districts whose adjustment would
1-11 result in an increase for the next fiscal year may receive payment
1-12 of all or, on a pro rata basis, part of that increase during the
1-13 current fiscal year, to the extent that appropriations provided by
1-14 this section allow.
1-15 (b) To the extent that appropriations provided by this
1-16 section exceed the total of increased entitlements determined
1-17 pursuant to Subsection (i), Section 16.254, Education Code, and
1-18 payable during the current fiscal year pursuant to Subsection (a)
1-19 of this section, the remainder shall be paid to all school
1-20 districts on a pro rata basis on or before July 25, 1995, as an
1-21 advance on payments otherwise due on or before September 25, 1995.
1-22 (c) The sum of $305 million is appropriated from the General
1-23 Revenue Fund to the Central Education Agency for the payments
1-24 authorized by this section for the current fiscal year.
2-1 SECTION 2. (a) In addition to amounts previously
2-2 appropriated for the current fiscal biennium, the sum of
2-3 $13,744,133 is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the
2-4 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the remainder of the
2-5 fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to fund enrollment and start-up
2-6 costs at new campuses at Collin County Community College, North
2-7 Harris Montgomery Community College, Blinn College, and Tarrant
2-8 County Junior College.
2-9 (b) Unexpended and unencumbered balances of the amount
2-10 appropriated by this section remaining at the end of fiscal year
2-11 1995 are reappropriated for the same purposes for the fiscal
2-12 biennium ending August 31, 1997.
2-13 SECTION 3. In addition to amounts previously appropriated
2-14 for the current fiscal biennium, the sum of $2,312,050 is
2-15 appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Texas Higher
2-16 Education Coordinating Board for the remainder of the fiscal year
2-17 ending August 31, 1995, to fund infrastructure development, student
2-18 support services, the physical plant, and instructional costs at
2-19 South Texas Community College.
2-20 SECTION 4. (a) The appropriations out of the General
2-21 Revenue Fund to the Texas Department of Health are reduced for the
2-22 fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, in the aggregate amount of
2-23 $8,250,000. The department shall identify the strategies and
2-24 objectives out of which the reductions are made.
2-25 (b) Out of that amount:
2-26 (1) the comptroller shall transfer to the Disaster
2-27 Contingency Account No. 453 in the General Revenue Fund the sum of
3-1 $4,000,000, and that amount in addition to amounts previously
3-2 appropriated for the current fiscal biennium is appropriated for
3-3 the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to the
3-4 governor for the purposes described by Section 418.073, Government
3-5 Code;
3-6 (2) in addition to amounts previously appropriated for
3-7 the current fiscal biennium there is appropriated for the remainder
3-8 of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to the Texas Youth
3-9 Commission the sum of $4,000,000 for the purpose of paying for the
3-10 confinement and care of juvenile offenders committed to the custody
3-11 of the commission, except that the commission may not expend more
3-12 than $2,300,000 of that amount without the prior written approval
3-13 of the governor given after the governor has sought the advice of
3-14 the Legislative Budget Board; and
3-15 (3) in addition to amounts previously appropriated for
3-16 the current fiscal biennium there is appropriated for the remainder
3-17 of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to the Department of
3-18 Public Safety of the State of Texas the sum of $250,000 for the
3-19 purpose of paying for expenses associated with the commission's
3-20 investigation of matters related to the Texas Commission on Alcohol
3-21 and Drug Abuse, with any unencumbered and unexpended balances of
3-22 that amount remaining at the end of the fiscal year ending August
3-23 31, 1995, being reappropriated to the Department of Public Safety
3-24 of the State of Texas for the same purposes for the fiscal biennium
3-25 ending August 31, 1997.
3-26 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-5 passage, and it is so enacted.