SGN H.B. 2082 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


CORRECTIONS
H.B. 2082
By: Hightower
4-2-97
Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND 

The Texas Youth Commission has developed a multi-phased treatment program,
its Resocialization Program, that has received national recognition and
the interest of public and private agencies seeking to use it.  TYC has
copyrighted both the curriculum and the student workbook.  The
Resocialization Program is a treatment program that methodically assists
juvenile offenders in developing both the desire and know-how in order to
effectively change.  It consists of meaningful case management that tracks
and helps the youth move from one phase of resocialization to the next.
Considerable staff time and agency funds went into the development of this
program which could be recouped, at least in part, from the sale or
license of this program to others. 

PURPOSE

H.B. 2082 authorizes the Texas Youth Commission to sell or license the use
of a treatment program it has developed and to use the proceeds for the
further development and operation of its treatment programs. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

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

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code, by
adding Section 61.051 to authorize the Texas Youth Commission to sell or
license to an individual or a private or public entity the right to use a
treatment program it has developed and to deposit the proceeds from any
such sale or license to the credit of the fund from which the program was
developed. 

SECTION 2.  Emergency clause.