1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 194
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 12, 1995; January 18, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 April 19, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 1995,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 194 By: Barrientos
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the operation and expansion of the Communities in
1-11 Schools program.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 216.021, Labor Code, is amended to read
1-14 as follows:
1-15 Sec. 216.021. DESIGNATION OF PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS.
1-16 (a) The state coordinator, in cooperation with the program
1-17 directors in the counties or cities in which a Communities in
1-18 Schools program is located <was established on September 1, 1991>,
1-19 shall designate for participation <not more than 32 elementary
1-20 schools and 76 secondary schools in those counties to participate>
1-21 in the program in the first year of the 1996-1997 state fiscal
1-22 biennium the campuses that were participating in the program as of
1-23 August 31, 1995, for continuation in the program and additional
1-24 campuses if the coordinator determines that funding is available
1-25 for participation in the program by additional campuses. This
1-26 subsection expires August 31, 1996.
1-27 (b) To determine participation in the second year of the
1-28 1996-1997 state fiscal biennium and subsequently, the <The> state
1-29 coordinator<, in cooperation with the program directors in four
1-30 additional counties designated by the state coordinator,> shall
1-31 implement a formula for the funding of Communities in Schools
1-32 campuses that reduces, over a five-year period beginning September
1-33 1, 1996, the funds annually contributed by the state to an amount
1-34 not less than 50 percent of the amount contributed by the state for
1-35 funding of the program in the first year of the 1996-1997 state
1-36 fiscal biennium <designate additional elementary and secondary
1-37 schools to participate in the Communities in Schools program>. The
1-38 formula must consider the financial resources of individual
1-39 communities and school districts. Savings accomplished through the
1-40 implementation of the formula may be used to extend participation
1-41 in the program to additional campuses in counties or cities that
1-42 are participating in the program and to campuses in counties and
1-43 cities that have not previously participated in the program.
1-44 (c) Each local Communities in Schools program shall develop
1-45 a five-year funding plan for campuses located in the county or city
1-46 that participate in the program under which levels of service to
1-47 those campuses are maintained as the proportion of state funding is
1-48 reduced <The designation of secondary schools to participate in the
1-49 Communities in Schools program must be distributed among high
1-50 schools and junior high or middle schools>.
1-51 (d) A Communities in Schools program may accept federal
1-52 funds, state funds, private contributions, grants, and public and
1-53 school district funds to support a campus participating in the
1-54 program.
1-55 SECTION 2. Section 16.152, Education Code, is amended by
1-56 adding Subsection (p) to read as follows:
1-57 (p) From the total amount of funds appropriated for
1-58 allotments under this section, the commissioner of education shall,
1-59 in each year of the 1996-1997 state fiscal biennium, withhold $15.6
1-60 million or a greater amount as determined in the General
1-61 Appropriations Act and distribute that amount for the Communities
1-62 in Schools program under Chapter 216, Labor Code. After deducting
1-63 the amount withheld under this subsection from the total amount
1-64 appropriated for the allotment under Subsection (a) of this
1-65 section, the commissioner of education shall reduce each district's
1-66 tier one allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in
1-67 allotments under Section 16.254 of this code. This subsection
1-68 expires August 31, 1997.
2-1 SECTION 3. (a) In addition to the changes in law made by
2-2 this Act to the Communities in Schools program, this Act conforms
2-3 Section 216.021, Labor Code, to certain changes made by Section 1,
2-4 Chapter 183, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993.
2-5 (b) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over
2-6 another Act of the 74th Legislature, 1995, relating to
2-7 nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted codes.
2-8 SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 311.025, Government Code,
2-9 this Act prevails over any revision, recodification, or reenactment
2-10 of Titles 1 and 2, Education Code, by the 74th Legislature, Regular
2-11 Session, 1995, including S.B. No. 1.
2-12 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-13 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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