S.B. No. 454
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the expansion of the Communities in Schools program.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsections (e) and (f), Section 11-D, Texas
1-4 Unemployment Compensation Act (Article 5221b-9d, Vernon's Texas
1-5 Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (e) An elementary or secondary school shall participate in
1-7 the program if the number of students enrolled in the school who
1-8 are at risk of dropping out of school is equal to at least 10
1-9 percent of the number of students in average daily attendance at
1-10 the school, as determined by the Central Education Agency, and the
1-11 school is:
1-12 (1) located in a county or city in which the program
1-13 is established on September 1, 1993 <1991>, and is designated to
1-14 participate in the program under Subsection (f) of this article; or
1-15 (2) located in one of six <four> additional counties
1-16 or cities designated by the state coordinator.
1-17 (f) The state coordinator in cooperation with the program
1-18 directors in the counties or cities in which the program is
1-19 established on September 1, 1993 <1991>, shall designate the
1-20 original campuses for continuance in the program and designate not
1-21 more than 135 additional <32> elementary <schools> and <76>
1-22 secondary schools in those counties or cities to participate in the
1-23 program. The state coordinator in cooperation with the program
2-1 directors in the six <four> additional counties or cities
2-2 designated by the state coordinator shall designate additional
2-3 elementary and secondary schools to participate in the program.
2-4 Secondary school programs must be distributed among high schools
2-5 and junior high or middle schools.
2-6 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-7 (b) Each elementary and secondary school designated to begin
2-8 participation in the Communities in Schools program under
2-9 Subsection (f), Section 11-D, Texas Unemployment Compensation Act
2-10 (Article 5221b-9d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by
2-11 this Act, shall begin participation in the program not later than
2-12 September 1, 1995. The state coordinator shall designate six
2-13 additional counties or cities for participation in the program
2-14 under Subsection (e), Section 11-D, Texas Unemployment Compensation
2-15 Act (Article 5221b-9d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended
2-16 by this Act, not later than September 1, 1995.
2-17 (c) This Act will not require an appropriation in excess of
2-18 the Communities in Schools program's current level of general
2-19 revenue funding unless new revenue measures are implemented to
2-20 provide a state budget surplus sufficient to fund the expansion of
2-21 Communities in Schools. If no surplus general revenue is
2-22 available, funding for expansion of Communities in Schools programs
2-23 as provided in this Act shall be accomplished by setting aside
2-24 $10.7 million in the first year and $14.8 million in the second
2-25 year of the biennium from funds allocated under Section 16.152,
3-1 Education Code.
3-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.