By Delisi H.B. No. 2464 76R7804 BDH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an award system for parent-teacher conferences in 1-3 public schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 39, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 39.113 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 39.113. PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE AWARDS. (a) The 1-8 governor may present a financial award to the schools or districts 1-9 that the commissioner determines have demonstrated the highest 1-10 sustained rates of parent-teacher conferences or the greatest 1-11 improvements in the rates of parent-teacher conferences for each 1-12 semester. For each student in average daily attendance, each of 1-13 those schools or districts is entitled to an amount set for the 1-14 award for which the school or district is selected by the 1-15 commissioner, subject to any limitation set by the commissioner on 1-16 the total amount that may be awarded to a school or district. 1-17 (b) An award under this section is subject to the use, 1-18 funding, and confidentiality requirements of an award under 1-19 Subchapter E. 1-20 SECTION 2. 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, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.