BILL ANALYSIS


                                                     C.S.S.B. 194
                                                   By: Barrientos
                                                        Education
                                                          4-20-95
                                   Committee Report (Substituted)
BACKGROUND

The forerunner of Communities In Schools of Texas is the national
program, Cities In Schools (CIS). The purpose of CIS is to offer an
alternative to young people, especially among the economically
disadvantaged, who have dropped out of school before graduation and
were headed for a lifetime of under-employment or unemployment. The
Texas model emphasizes the in-school aspects of the service model
developed by the founders of CIS.

Today, industry, education, and governmental leaders in Texas as
well as the nation, recognize the need to address the problems
facing at-risk youth. CIS has over 25 years of experience
nationally and 16 years in Texas dealing with the many problems
facing youth in our communities. With the help of government,
business and social service agencies, Communities In Schools is
helping community leaders address these problems.

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 194 provides for the operation and expansion
of the Communities in Schools program.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or
agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 216.021, Labor Code, as follows:

     Sec. 216.021. DESIGNATION OF PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS. (a)
     Requires the state coordinator, in cooperation with program
     directors in the counties or cities (areas) in which a
     Communities in Schools program (program) is located to
     designate for participation in the program in the first year
     of the 1996-97 state fiscal biennium the campuses that were
     participating in the program as of August 31, 1995, for
     continuation in the program, and additional campuses if the
     coordinator determines that funding is available for
     participation in the program by additional campuses. Provides
     that this subsection expires August 31, 1996. Deletes the
     requirement of the state coordinator to designate no more than
     32 elementary schools and 76 secondary schools to participate
     in the program.
     
     (b) Requires the state coordinator, to determine
       participation in the second year of the 1996-97 state fiscal
       biennium and subsequently, to implement a formula for the
       funding of Communities in Schools campuses that reduces,
       over a five-year period beginning September 1, 1996, the
       funds annually contributed by the state to an amount not
       less than 50 percent of the amount contributed by the state
       for funding of the program in the first year of the 1996-97
       state fiscal biennium. Requires the formula to consider the
       financial resources of individual communities and school
       districts. Authorizes savings accomplished through the
       implementation of the formula to be used to extend
       participation in the program to additional campuses in areas
       that are participating in the program and to campuses in
       areas that have not previously participated in the program.
       Deletes language concerning additional schools participation
       in the program.
       
       (c) Requires each local program to develop a five-year
       funding plan for campuses located in the county or city that
       participate in the program under which levels of service to
       those campuses are maintained as the proportion of state
       funding is reduced. Deletes existing Subsection (c).
       
       (d) Authorizes a program to accept federal funds, state
       funds, private contributions, grants, and public and school
       district funds to support a campus participating in the
       program.
SECTION 2. Amends Section 16.152, Education Code, by adding
Subsection (p), as follows:

     (p) Requires the commissioner of education (commissioner),
     from the total amount of funds appropriated for allotments
     under this section, in each year of the 1996-97 state fiscal
     biennium, to withhold $15.6 million or a greater amount as
     determined in the General Appropriations Act and distribute
     that amount for the program under Chapter 216, Labor Code.
     Requires the commissioner, after deducting the amount withheld
     under this subsection from the total amount appropriated for
     the allotment under Subsection (a) of this section, to reduce
     each district's tier one allotments in the same manner
     described for a reduction in allotments under Section 16.254
     of this code. Provides that this subsection expires August 31,
     1997.
SECTION 3. (a) Provides that in addition to the changes in law made
by this Act to the Communities in School program, this Act conforms
Section 216.021, Labor Code, to certain changes made by Section 1,
Chapter 183, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993.

     (b) Provides that to the extent of any conflict, this Act
     prevails over another Act of the 74th Legislature, Regular
     Session, 1995, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and
     corrections in enacted codes.
     
SECTION 4. Provides that notwithstanding Section 311.025,
Government Code, this Act prevails over any revision,
recodification, or reenactment of Titles 1 and 2, Education Code,
by the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, including S.B. 1.

SECTION 5. Effective date: September 1, 1995.

SECTION 6. Emergency clause.