73R10686 CLG-F
          By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 2707
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2707:
          By Hilderbran                                     C.S.H.B. No. 2707
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a leadership camp for at-risk children.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 11, Subchapter A, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 11.2053 to read as follows:
    1-6        SECTION 11.2053.  PILOT PROGRAM FOR LEADERSHIP CAMP.  (a)
    1-7  Subject to the availability of funds appropriated by the
    1-8  legislature, the Central Education Agency by rule shall establish a
    1-9  leadership camp for at-risk children pilot program.  The agency
   1-10  shall implement the program in a county with a population of 2
   1-11  million or more.
   1-12        (b)  The agency may enter into a contract for the operation
   1-13  of the program.
   1-14        (c)  A person proposing to enter into a contract with the
   1-15  agency under this section must demonstrate:
   1-16              (1)  experience in the operation of public parks or
   1-17  public community centers and/or in working with at-risk children;
   1-18  and
   1-19              (2)  a plan of operation that:
   1-20                    (A)  targets non-physically handicapped children
   1-21  of above-average intelligence between the ages of 10-13 who are
   1-22  at-risk of becoming a public school dropout because of academic
   1-23  and/or behavioral deficiencies;
   1-24                    (B)  provides to children described by Paragraph
    2-1  (A) educational and recreational activities, family counseling, and
    2-2  leadership and job skills training in a setting that may consist of
    2-3  both daytime-only and around the clock activities for a period of
    2-4  up to 90 days at a time, not to exceed three such consecutive
    2-5  periods of time;
    2-6                    (C)  provides for cooperation between the person
    2-7  entering into the contract and school districts and/or community
    2-8  colleges serving the area in which the camp is to be located, with
    2-9  such cooperation to include, but not be limited to, development of
   2-10  curriculum, provision of instructors, and program supervision
   2-11  within the availability of state funds, local funds, grants and
   2-12  in-kind services;
   2-13                    (D)  provides for the use of students enrolled in
   2-14  job skills programs of area community colleges to improve the land
   2-15  on which the leadership camp is to be located and to construct and
   2-16  improve facilities on that land in return for course credit and/or
   2-17  minimum wage compensation; and
   2-18                    (E)  provides for an evaluation of the
   2-19  performance and results of the leadership camp to determine whether
   2-20  the leadership camp concept should be replicated at other similar
   2-21  sites throughout the state.
   2-22        (d)  The agency shall set a timetable to implement and
   2-23  complete the pilot program.
   2-24        SECTION 2.  Subject to the availability of funds appropriated
   2-25  by the legislature, the Central Education Agency shall establish
   2-26  the pilot program required by Section 11.2053, Education Code, not
   2-27  later than January 1, 1994.
    3-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-7  passage, and it is so enacted.