By Garcia                                       H.B. No. 1559

      75R6630 ESH-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the funding allotment for bilingual education programs

 1-3     in public schools.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 42.153(a), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  For each student in average daily attendance in a

 1-8     bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B,

 1-9     Chapter 29, a district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to

1-10     the adjusted basic allotment multiplied by 0.2 [0.1].

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.