1-1     By:  Olivo (Senate Sponsor - West)                    H.B. No. 2359
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the investment capital fund administered by the Texas
 1-9     Education Agency.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 7.024(d), Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (d)  A grant from the fund shall be made directly to the
1-14     school and may be used for the training and development of school
1-15     staff, parents, and community leaders in order that they understand
1-16     and implement the academic standards and practices necessary for
1-17     high academic achievement, appropriate strategies to deregulate and
1-18     restructure the school in order to improve student achievement, and
1-19     effective strategies to organize parents and community leaders into
1-20     a large, nonpartisan constituency that will hold the school and the
1-21     school district accountable for achieving high academic standards.
1-22     The [Not more than 25 percent of the] grant may be used to
1-23     implement strategies developed by the partners that are designed to
1-24     enrich or extend student learning experiences outside of the
1-25     regular school day.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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