By:  Hilbert                                          H.B. No. 2707
       73R5192 GWK-D
                                 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 80, Human Resources Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Section 80.005 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 80.005.  PILOT PROGRAM.  (a)  The Department of
    1-7  Protective and Regulatory Services by rule shall establish a
    1-8  leadership camp for at-risk children pilot program.  The department
    1-9  shall implement the program in a county with a population of 2
   1-10  million or more.
   1-11        (b)  The department may enter into a contract for the
   1-12  operation of the program.
   1-13        (c)  A person proposing to enter into a contract with the
   1-14  department under this section must demonstrate:
   1-15              (1)  experience in the operation of public parks or
   1-16  public community centers; and
   1-17              (2)  a plan of operation that:
   1-18                    (A)  targets children who are at risk due to the
   1-19  prevalence in their community of drugs, alcohol, crime, gang
   1-20  violence, and teenage pregnancy;
   1-21                    (B)  provides to children described by Paragraph
   1-22  (A) recreation and educational activities, family counseling, and
   1-23  job and leadership training;
   1-24                    (C)  provides for cooperation between the person
    2-1  entering into the contract and school districts and community
    2-2  colleges serving the area in which the camp is to be located; and
    2-3                    (D)  provides for the use of unemployed residents
    2-4  of the area to improve the land on which the camp is to be located
    2-5  and to construct and improve facilities on that land.
    2-6        (d)  The department shall set a timetable to implement and
    2-7  complete the program.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  The Department of Protective and Regulatory
    2-9  Services shall establish the pilot program required by Section
   2-10  80.005, Human Resources Code, not later than January 1, 1994.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-17  passage, and it is so enacted.