By Luna S.B. No. 1144 75R7871 ESH-D 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.