By:  Nelson, Bernsen                                   S.B. No. 596
         99S0464/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to an additional Foundation School Program allotment for
 1-2     schools that open or expand instructional facilities.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 42.106 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 42.106.  INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES OPENING OR EXPANSION
 1-7     ADJUSTMENT.  (a)  A district is entitled to an additional allotment
 1-8     for operational expenses associated with opening a new or expanding
 1-9     an existing instructional facility.  In this section,
1-10     "instructional facility" has the same meaning assigned by Section
1-11     46.001.
1-12           (b)  For the year in which a district opens a new
1-13     instructional facility, the district shall receive an additional
1-14     allotment of $500 per student in weighted average daily attendance
1-15     at that facility.  For the second year after a district opens a new
1-16     instructional facility, the district shall receive an additional
1-17     allotment of $500 per student in weighted average daily attendance
1-18     at that facility in excess of the number of students in weighted
1-19     average daily attendance at the facility for the preceding year.
1-20           (c)  For the year in which a district expands the
1-21     instructional space at an existing instructional facility to
1-22     accommodate an increase of 10 percent or more in the number of
1-23     students in weighted average daily attendance at that facility, the
1-24     district shall receive an additional allotment of $250 per student
 2-1     in weighted average daily attendance at the facility in excess of
 2-2     the number of students in weighted average daily attendance at the
 2-3     facility for the preceding year.
 2-4           (d)  The commissioner may adopt rules necessary for the
 2-5     implementation of this section.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.