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By:  Barrientos                                                   S.B. No. 274
	(In the Senate - Filed January 26, 2005; February 3, 2005, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 
March 21, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 
Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 21, 2005, 
sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 274                                    By:  West


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to funding of the Communities In Schools program.                  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (w) to read as follows:
	(w)  From the total amount of funds appropriated for 
allotments under this section, the commissioner shall, each fiscal 
year, withhold an amount to be determined by the commissioner, but 
not less than $22.5 million, for programs under Subchapter E, 
Chapter 33, and distribute that amount as provided by Section 
33.156.  After deducting the amount withheld under this subsection 
from the total amount appropriated for the allotment under 
Subsection (a), the commissioner shall reduce each district's tier 
one allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in 
allotments under Section 42.253 and shall allocate funds to each 
district accordingly.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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