76R16816 BDH-F                          
         By Zaffirini                                           S.B. No. 724
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 724:
         By Lengefeld                                       C.S.S.B. No. 724
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to continuing education courses and programs for public
 1-3     school educators.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 8.053, Education Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 8.053.  ADDITIONAL SERVICES.  In addition to the
 1-8     services provided under Section 8.051 and the initiatives
 1-9     implemented under Section 8.052, a regional education service
1-10     center may:
1-11                 (1)  offer any service requested and purchased by any
1-12     school district or campus in the state; and
1-13                 (2)  contract with a public or private entity for
1-14     services under this subchapter, including the provision of
1-15     continuing education courses and programs for educators.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.