By Shapiro                                             S.B. No. 591
         76R6200 ESH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to funding for school districts that open new schools or
 1-3     expand existing schools.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 42.158 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 42.158.  NEW OR EXPANDED INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITY
 1-8     ALLOTMENT.  (a)  A school district is entitled to an additional
 1-9     allotment as provided by this section for operational expenses
1-10     associated with opening a new instructional facility or expanding
1-11     an existing instructional facility.
1-12           (b)  For the first school year in which students attend a new
1-13     instructional facility, a school district is entitled to an
1-14     allotment of $500 for each student in weighted average daily
1-15     attendance at the facility.  For the second school year in which
1-16     students attend that instructional facility, a school district is
1-17     entitled to an allotment of $500 for each additional student in
1-18     weighted average daily attendance at the facility.
1-19           (c)  For the first year that begins following an expansion of
1-20     instructional space in an existing instructional facility that is
1-21     designed to accommodate an increase of at least 10 percent in the
1-22     number of students in weighted average daily attendance at that
1-23     facility, a district is entitled to an allotment of $250 for each
1-24     additional student in weighted average daily attendance at that
 2-1     facility.
 2-2           (d)  For purposes of this section:
 2-3                 (1)  the number of students in weighted average daily
 2-4     attendance at an instructional facility is determined by dividing
 2-5     the number of students  in average daily attendance at the facility
 2-6     by the quotient of the number of students in average daily
 2-7     attendance in the district divided by the number of students in
 2-8     weighted average daily attendance, as computed under Section
 2-9     42.302, in the district; and
2-10                 (2)  the number of additional students in weighted
2-11     average daily attendance at a facility is the difference between
2-12     the number of students in weighted average daily attendance in the
2-13     current year at that facility and the number of students in
2-14     weighted average daily attendance at that facility in the preceding
2-15     year.
2-16           (e)  The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement
2-17     this section.
2-18           (f)  In this section, "instructional facility" has the
2-19     meaning assigned by Section 46.001.
2-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.