SRC-ARR S.B. 1747 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterS.B. 1747
By: Jackson
Higher Education
6/30/1999
Enrolled


DIGEST 

The Seaborne Conservation Corps (SCC) is a preventive 17_ month volunteer
program for nonadjudicated, drug-free 16 to18 year old high school
drop-outs. SCC teaches, mentors, develops, prepares, and serves Texas teens
in an austere, structural military environment on board a Navy barge on the
campus of the Texas A&M at Galveston campus. Graduates of the program
receive a GED, life training skills and career counseling. S.B. 1747 will
authorize SCC to be eligible for annual daily attendance funding.   

PURPOSE

As enrolled, S.B. 1747 funds the Seaborne Conservation Corps or similar a
program at Texas A&M University at Galveston. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 87C, Education Code, by adding Section 87.207, as
follows: 

Sec. 87.207. SEABORNE CONSERVATION CORPS. Provides that a program that is
similar to the Seaborne Conservation Corps is entitled, for each student
enrolled, to allotments from the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42
as if the program were a school district, except that the program has a
local share applied that is equivalent to the local fund assignment of the
school district in which the principal facilities of the program are
located, if the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System (board)
administers the program as it was administered by the board during the
1998-1999 school year.  

SECTION 2. Provides that funding under Section 87.207, Education Code,
added by this Act, for program coverage by that section applies beginning
with the 1999-2000 school year. 

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.
                      Effective date: upon passage.