By Garcia                                             H.B. No. 2282
         76R7879 ESH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the funding allotment for bilingual education programs
 1-3     in public schools.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 42.153(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  For each student in average daily attendance in a
 1-8     bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B,
 1-9     Chapter 29, a district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to
1-10     the adjusted basic allotment multiplied by 0.2 [0.1].
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.