By: West S.B. No. 1361 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the establishment of pilot after-school programs. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 29, Education Code, is 1-4 amended by adding a new Section 29.086 to read as follows: 1-5 Section 29.086. PILOT AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. (a) The 1-6 Commissioner of Education shall promulgate and issue rules for the 1-7 establishment of after-school programs to assist school districts 1-8 that have high rates of children handled by youth agencies, police 1-9 departments, juvenile courts and justices of the peace. 1-10 (b) Such programs will be conducted as pilots for the school 1-11 year 1997-98 and 1998-99. 1-12 (c) The program shall include: 1-13 (1) individual counseling, 1-14 (2) academic tutoring, 1-15 (3) life skills recreation, and 1-16 (4) gang violence prevention education. 1-17 (d) The commissioner shall develop an appropriate funding 1-18 mechanism based on the data relating to youth being handled by 1-19 youth agencies including police departments, juvenile courts and 1-20 justices of the peace. 1-21 (e) Funds expended for the 1998-99 biennium shall not exceed 2-1 ten million dollars. 2-2 (f) The commissioner shall conduct an evaluation of such 2-3 pilot program and report the findings to the 76th Legislative 2-4 Session of the Texas Legislature. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.