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.