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.