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.