By Shapleigh S.B. No. 1386
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1386:
By Pickett C.S.S.B. No. 1386
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a review and study of the effects of formulas for state
1-3 funding on programs and institutions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. The comptroller of public accounts shall:
1-6 (1) review the formulas used to determine state
1-7 funding of programs and institutions among Texas counties and how
1-8 the funding is distributed under those formulas;
1-9 (2) study how state funding of programs and
1-10 institutions under the formulas:
1-11 (A) affects economic development efforts;
1-12 (B) assists or hinders residents and businesses
1-13 in sustaining the financial burdens that result from global
1-14 economic competition;
1-15 (C) affects educational opportunities;
1-16 (D) affects the state of public health; and
1-17 (E) affects the mission or purpose of each
1-18 state-funded program or institution; and
1-19 (3) before September 1, 2000, report the results of
1-20 the study required by this section to the governor, the lieutenant
1-21 governor, the speaker of the house of representatives.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 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.