By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 820
         99S0581/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the compensatory education allotment.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (i), Section 42.152, Education Code,
 1-4     is amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (i)  From the total amount of funds appropriated for
 1-6     allotments under this section, the commissioner shall, each fiscal
 1-7     year, withhold $15 million [$7,500,000] or a greater amount as
 1-8     determined in the General Appropriations Act and distribute that
 1-9     amount for programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 33.  A program
1-10     established under that subchapter is required only in school
1-11     districts in which the program is financed by funds distributed
1-12     under this section or other funds distributed by the commissioner
1-13     for a program under that subchapter.   [In distributing those
1-14     funds, preference shall be given to a school district that received
1-15     funds for a program under this subsection for the preceding school
1-16     year.]
1-17           SECTION 2.  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.