By: Luna S.B. No. 1917
97S1006/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the distribution of funds for extended year programs
1-2 under the compensatory education allotment.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (p) and adding Subsection (p-1) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (p) The commissioner shall:
1-8 (1) withhold, from the total amount of funds
1-9 appropriated for allotments under this section, an amount
1-10 sufficient to finance extended year programs under Section 29.082
1-11 not to exceed five percent of the amounts allocated under this
1-12 section; [and]
1-13 (2) give consideration to a district's degree of
1-14 concentration [priority to applications for extended year programs
1-15 to districts with high concentrations] of educationally
1-16 disadvantaged students in determining the number of students in the
1-17 district that are eligible for extended year programs under this
1-18 subsection; and
1-19 (3) distribute state funds for extended year programs
1-20 so that a district's share of the cost of the district's extended
1-21 year programs as determined by the commissioner is proportional to
1-22 the district's share of the cost of the district's tier one program
1-23 as determined under this chapter.
2-1 (p-1) The commissioner shall provide for phasing in a
2-2 district's cost share as determined under Subsection (p)(3) if the
2-3 district's share would cause the district to be eligible for a
2-4 lesser amount of state funds per weighted student in school years
2-5 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 than the district received in school year
2-6 1996-1997 under Subsection (p), provided the district's property
2-7 value per weighted student is less than one-half of the state
2-8 average property value per weighted student. This subsection
2-9 expires September 1, 2000.
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
2-11 school year.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.