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.