74R11666 JRD-D
By Montford S.B. No. 407
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 407:
By Junell C.S.S.B. No. 407
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to making emergency appropriations for distribution of
1-3 state money to school districts and certain public institutions and
1-4 commissions and to emergency reductions in the current
1-5 appropriations to the Texas Department of Health.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. (a) On determination pursuant to Subsection (i),
1-8 Section 16.254, Education Code, of the actual amount of state funds
1-9 to which each school district is entitled for the 1994-1995 school
1-10 year and the amount of adjustment of each district's entitlement
1-11 for the next fiscal year, those districts whose adjustment would
1-12 result in an increase for the next fiscal year may receive payment
1-13 of all or, on a pro rata basis, part of that increase during the
1-14 current fiscal year, to the extent that appropriations provided by
1-15 this section allow.
1-16 (b) To the extent that appropriations provided by this
1-17 section exceed the total of increased entitlements determined
1-18 pursuant to Subsection (i), Section 16.254, Education Code, and
1-19 payable during the current fiscal year pursuant to Subsection (a)
1-20 of this section, the remainder shall be paid to all school
1-21 districts on a pro rata basis on or before July 25, 1995, as an
1-22 advance on payments otherwise due on or before September 25, 1995.
1-23 (c) The sum of $305 million is appropriated from the general
1-24 revenue fund to the Central Education Agency for the payments
2-1 authorized by this section for the current fiscal year.
2-2 SECTION 2. (a) In addition to amounts previously
2-3 appropriated for the current fiscal biennium, the sum of
2-4 $13,744,133 is appropriated from the general revenue fund to the
2-5 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the remainder of the
2-6 fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to fund enrollment and start-up
2-7 costs at new campuses at Collin County Community College, North
2-8 Harris Montgomery Community College, Blinn College, and Tarrant
2-9 County Junior College.
2-10 (b) Unexpended and unencumbered balances of the amount
2-11 appropriated by this section remaining at the end of fiscal year
2-12 1995 are reappropriated for the same purposes for the fiscal
2-13 biennium ending August 31, 1997.
2-14 SECTION 3. In addition to amounts previously appropriated
2-15 for the current fiscal biennium, the sum of $2,312,050 is
2-16 appropriated from the general revenue fund to the Texas Higher
2-17 Education Coordinating Board for the remainder of the fiscal year
2-18 ending August 31, 1995, to fund infrastructure development, student
2-19 support services, the physical plant, and instructional costs at
2-20 South Texas Community College.
2-21 SECTION 4. (a) The appropriations out of the general
2-22 revenue fund to the Texas Department of Health are reduced for the
2-23 fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, in the aggregate amount of
2-24 $8,250,000. The department shall identify the strategies and
2-25 objectives out of which the reductions are made.
2-26 (b) Out of that amount:
2-27 (1) the comptroller shall transfer to the Disaster
3-1 Contingency Account No. 453 in the general revenue fund the sum of
3-2 $4,000,000, and that amount in addition to amounts previously
3-3 appropriated for the current fiscal biennium is appropriated for
3-4 the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to the
3-5 governor for the purposes described by Section 418.073, Government
3-6 Code;
3-7 (2) in addition to amounts previously appropriated for
3-8 the current fiscal biennium there is appropriated for the remainder
3-9 of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to the Texas Youth
3-10 Commission the sum of $4,000,000 for the purpose of paying for the
3-11 confinement and care of juvenile offenders committed to the custody
3-12 of the commission, except that the commission may not expend more
3-13 than $2,300,000 of that amount without the prior written approval
3-14 of the governor given after the governor has sought the advice of
3-15 the Legislative Budget Board; and
3-16 (3) in addition to amounts previously appropriated for
3-17 the current fiscal biennium there is appropriated for the remainder
3-18 of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, to the Department of
3-19 Public Safety the sum of $250,000 for the purpose of paying for
3-20 expenses associated with the commission's investigation of matters
3-21 related to the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, with any
3-22 unencumbered and unexpended balances of that amount remaining at
3-23 the end of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995, being
3-24 reappropriated to the Department of Public Safety for the same
3-25 purposes for the fiscal biennium 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.