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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1981
Legislature to meet again in summer
United Press International
AUSTIN — The 1981 Texas
Legislature wrote an unpre
cedented record of anti-crime me
asures during its 140 day regular
session but left the critical issues
of congressional redistricting and
funding of college construction
unresolved, forcing the lawmak
ers to meet again in special sum
mer session to deal with those
“I thank all of you for a great
session. You’ve done well for the
state and I mean that sincerely,’
Gov. Bill Clements told the law
makers as the midnight adjourn
ment neared.
“I regret that we will have to be
Bilingual
bill gets
approval
United Press International
AUSTIN — If Gov. Bill Cle
ments signs the legislation, biling
ual education programs will be ex
tended through all elementary
grades in Texas.
While Attorney General Mark
White watched Monday, the
legislation gained final approval
only hours before the end of the
session.
White has been involved in
continued legal wrangling over
the legislation, representing the
state’s various unsuccessful legal
positions.
The House, which earlier had
insisted on an amendment limit
ing articipation in bilingual prog
rams to four years, voted 82-52 to
go along with the compromise bill
deleting that provision.
White was on hand as a confer
ence committee quickly approved
the compromise version and sent
it to the House and Senate for final
approval. The bill has a price tag
estimated at $15 million.
Rep. Milton Fox, R-Houston,
argued against House approval of-
the bill, saying, “The fact is that
bilingual education as we have
practiced it in Texas is perpetuat
ing this segregation and I fear it
will pierpetuate a segregated soci
ety. I say bilingual is failing.
Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus
Christi, the sponsor of the bill,
contended /Fox’s + !; amendment
would have destroyed the bill.
The Fox amendment was de
leted as part of the conference
committee compromise, as was an
amendment by Rep. Matt Garcia,
D-San Antonio, that removed
funding for pilot education prog
rams froip the bill. Garcia said he
feared too many schools Would in
stitute pilot programs and drain
funds from bilingual education.
Under the current appropria
tions bill, funding is set at $56.85
per student during the program’s
first year and slightly higher the
second. Truan estimated that
227, ()()() students in 350 Texas
school districts would participate
in the program.
Under the plan as passed by the
Senate, bilingual education would
be offered in grades kindergarten
through elementary levels in
school districts where 20 students
per grade level speak limited En
glish. Other language assistance
programs would be offered in the
junior high grades and high
school.
“We now have the proper
framework, but that is no good
without adequate funding, Truan
said. “I really don’t know if this
will be to the court’s satisfaction.
Truan said he had expected the
funding to be raised to nearly $100
a pupil in conference committee,
but the Senate later approved a
conference committee report on
the appropriations bill that funded
the program at the lower level.
Legislators have known all ses
sion that they must pass a bilingual
bill because of federal court order
mandating expansion of biligual
education in the state. White cur
rently is seeking a stay of the fed
eral order pending appeal.
“I think that it supports our
appeal in that it shows the court
that we have a constitutional plan
that will meet the appropriate
educational needs,” White said.
“I’m not sure how far the funding
goes, but I hope the Legislature
has made it enough.”
White later issued a statement
saying: “I am pleased that our
state legislature has passed a
bilingual education bill. Passage of
this legislation is evidence that
Texans can work together to re
solve their own educational prob
lems without federal court inter
vention.
“In addition to enhancing our
appeal, this legislation will allow
our non-English speaking chil
dren to learn English quicker so
that they can compete equally
with other children, and thus be
able to take advantage of the
many opportunities that Texas
has to offer. ”
back soon.”
In contrast to previous sessions
when the lawmakers have worked
at a frantic pace in the final hours,
the major issues this year died in
conference committee, leaving
the legislators joking and partying
much of the final night. »
Clements announced almost
th ree hours before the session en
ded that he would call a special
session during the summer, but
declined to name a specific date.
H is aides speculated the session
would begin by late July or early
August.
Speaker Bill Clayton’s proposal
to establish a trust fund to meet
future state water needs and pay
off state debts was the first casual
ty Monday among the remaining
major bills. It was killed in the
Senate on a parliamentary ruling.
Then a conference committee
attempting to compromise on a
constitutional amendment repeal
ing the state property tax and
establishing a new method of
funding college construction
annnounced its differences were
irreconcilable.
Negotiations on congressional
redistricting and a continuation of
the regulation of physicians would
fail later in the night, but by then
Clements already had announced
a special session was necessary.
He told reporters the Legisla
ture had made a commitment in
1979 to abolish the property tax,
and had not carried through on
that promise.
“There will be a special session,
and that will be the first item on
the agenda,” Clements said. The
water fund, Medical Practices Act
and congressional redistricting
also will be on the agenda, along
with any other items Clements
selects.
“I really don’t know of anyone
that wants a special session, but
we’ve just run out of time and not
accomplished all that some of us
wanted to or all that we should
have, the governor said.
/The Legislature approved and
sent to Clements nine of 11 bills in
the governor’s anti-crime pack
age, and five more bills proposed
by the “War on Drugs” committee
headed by computer billionaire
H. Ross Perot.
Included on the list of anti
crime measures passed was a bill
allowing law enforcement officers
for the first time in Texas to use
wiretaps and electronic bugging
devices to gather evidence in nar
cotics cases.
Before gavelling to a close, the
Legislature also adopted a record
$26.8 billion state budget for the
next two years that came within
$12 million of the spending limit.
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