AN ACT
 1-1     relating to continuing education courses and programs for public
 1-2     school educators.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 8.053, Education Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 8.053.  ADDITIONAL SERVICES.  In addition to the
 1-7     services provided under Section 8.051 and the initiatives
 1-8     implemented under Section 8.052, a regional education service
 1-9     center may:
1-10                 (1)  offer any service requested and purchased by any
1-11     school district or campus in the state; and
1-12                 (2)  contract with a public or private entity for
1-13     services under this subchapter, including the provision of
1-14     continuing education courses and programs for educators.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 724 passed the Senate on
         April 29, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by a
         viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 724 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor