By Luna                                         S.B. No. 1144

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to grants made by the commissioner of education to certain

 1-3     school districts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 42.157 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 42.157.  LIMITATION ON GRANTS FROM FUNDS WITHHELD FROM

 1-8     SPECIAL ALLOTMENTS.  (a)  The commissioner may not make a grant to

 1-9     a school district that has a wealth per student greater than the

1-10     guaranteed wealth level if the grant money is withheld from an

1-11     allotment under this subchapter.

1-12           (b)  In this section:

1-13                 (1)  "Guaranteed wealth level" means a wealth per

1-14     student equal to the dollar amount guaranteed level of state and

1-15     local funds per weighted student per cent of tax effort, as

1-16     provided by Section 42.302, multiplied by 10,000.

1-17                 (2)  "Wealth per student" has the meaning assigned by

1-18     Section 41.001.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.