By Truan S.B. No. 813 75R2379 CAS-D 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.