By Truan                                         S.B. No. 813

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a career and technology education improvement pilot

 1-3     program.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 29.186 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 29.186.  CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT

 1-8     PILOT PROGRAM.  (a)  The agency shall select three or four school

 1-9     districts to establish a career and technology education

1-10     improvement pilot program in district middle, junior high, and high

1-11     schools.  Each district must be located in a major industrialized

1-12     metropolitan area.

1-13           (b)  The agency shall notify each district in this state

1-14     located in a major industrialized metropolitan area of the

1-15     opportunity to establish a pilot program and the information

1-16     necessary for a district to apply for participation.  The agency

1-17     shall select districts to establish a pilot program based on

1-18     proposals submitted by districts.  Each proposal:

1-19                 (1)  shall be in the form and contain the information

1-20     required by the agency, including the name of district schools that

1-21     would participate and any information about those schools required

1-22     by the agency; and

1-23                 (2)  must be submitted during the period specified by

1-24     the agency.

 2-1           (c)  The agency shall distribute to districts selected to

 2-2     establish a pilot program money appropriated for that purpose.  The

 2-3     distribution to a district shall be based on the number of district

 2-4     students participating in the pilot program.  Each district may use

 2-5     the money only for equipment, training aids, and facilities used in

 2-6     a career and technology education program at a district school

 2-7     approved by the agency for participation in the pilot program and

 2-8     for salaries of district personnel serving in one of those

 2-9     programs.

2-10           (d)  The agency may adopt rules with which a district must

2-11     comply in operating a pilot program and spending funds distributed

2-12     for pilot program purposes.

2-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.