By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 622
         99S0460/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to funding for schools with an extended year program.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 42.005, Education Code,
 1-4     is amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (a)  In this chapter, average daily attendance is the
 1-6     quotient of the sum of attendance for each day of the minimum
 1-7     number of days of instruction as described under Section 25.081(a)
 1-8     and for each day approved by the commissioner for an extended year
 1-9     program under Section 29.082 divided by the minimum number of days
1-10     of instruction.
1-11           SECTION  2.  Subsection (a), Section 29.082, Education Code,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A school district shall use the amount of revenue
1-14     generated under Section 42.005(a) as a result of the district
1-15     having an extended year program, may set aside an amount from the
1-16     district's allotment under Section 42.152, or may apply to the
1-17     agency for funding of an extended year program for a period not to
1-18     exceed 30 instructional days for students in kindergarten through
1-19     grade 8 who are identified as likely not to be promoted to the next
1-20     grade level for the succeeding school year.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect beginning with the
1-22     1999-2000 school year.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.