By: Barrientos, West S.B. No. 194
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the operation and expansion of the Communities in
1-2 Schools program.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 216.021, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 216.021. DESIGNATION OF PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS.
1-7 (a) The state coordinator, in cooperation with the program
1-8 directors in the counties or cities in which a Communities in
1-9 Schools program is located <was established on September 1, 1991>,
1-10 shall designate for participation <not more than 32 elementary
1-11 schools and 76 secondary schools in those counties to participate>
1-12 in the program in the first year of the 1996-1997 state fiscal
1-13 biennium the campuses that were participating in the program as of
1-14 August 31, 1995, for continuation in the program and additional
1-15 campuses if the coordinator determines that funding is available
1-16 for participation in the program by additional campuses. This
1-17 subsection expires August 31, 1996.
1-18 (b) To determine participation in the second year of the
1-19 1996-1997 state fiscal biennium and subsequently, the <The> state
1-20 coordinator<, in cooperation with the program directors in four
1-21 additional counties designated by the state coordinator,> shall
1-22 implement a formula for the funding of Communities in Schools
1-23 campuses that reduces, over a five-year period beginning
1-24 September 1, 1996, the funds annually contributed by the state to
2-1 an amount not less than 50 percent of the amount contributed by the
2-2 state for funding of the program in the first year of the 1996-1997
2-3 state fiscal biennium <designate additional elementary and
2-4 secondary schools to participate in the Communities in Schools
2-5 program>. The formula must consider the financial resources of
2-6 individual communities and school districts. Savings accomplished
2-7 through the implementation of the formula may be used to extend
2-8 participation in the program to additional campuses in counties or
2-9 cities that are participating in the program and to campuses in
2-10 counties and cities that have not previously participated in the
2-11 program.
2-12 (c) Each local Communities in Schools program shall develop
2-13 a five-year funding plan for campuses located in the county or city
2-14 that participate in the program under which levels of service to
2-15 those campuses are maintained as the proportion of state funding is
2-16 reduced <The designation of secondary schools to participate in the
2-17 Communities in Schools program must be distributed among high
2-18 schools and junior high or middle schools>.
2-19 (d) A Communities in Schools program may accept federal
2-20 funds, state funds, private contributions, grants, and public and
2-21 school district funds to support a campus participating in the
2-22 program.
2-23 SECTION 2. Section 16.152, Education Code, is amended by
2-24 adding Subsection (p) to read as follows:
2-25 (p) From the total amount of funds appropriated for
2-26 allotments under this section, the commissioner of education shall,
2-27 in each year of the 1996-1997 state fiscal biennium, withhold $16.3
3-1 million or a greater amount as determined in the General
3-2 Appropriations Act and distribute that amount for the Communities
3-3 in Schools program under Chapter 216, Labor Code. After deducting
3-4 the amount withheld under this subsection from the total amount
3-5 appropriated for the allotment under Subsection (a) of this
3-6 section, the commissioner of education shall reduce each district's
3-7 tier one allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in
3-8 allotments under Section 16.254 of this code. This subsection
3-9 expires August 31, 1997.
3-10 SECTION 3. (a) In addition to the changes in law made by
3-11 this Act to the Communities in Schools program, this Act conforms
3-12 Section 216.021, Labor Code, to certain changes made by Section 1,
3-13 Chapter 183, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993.
3-14 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
3-15 another Act of the 74th Legislature, 1995, relating to
3-16 nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.
3-17 SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 311.025, Government Code,
3-18 this Act prevails over any revision, recodification, or reenactment
3-19 of Titles 1 and 2, Education Code, by the 74th Legislature, Regular
3-20 Session, 1995, including S.B. No. 1.
3-21 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
3-22 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.