By Chisum H.B. No. 3126 76R7426 SMJ-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment and application of uniform criteria 1-3 for evaluating state-funded drug abuse prevention programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERIA. The following 1-6 agencies by rule shall establish a uniform set of criteria for 1-7 evaluating the effectiveness of a drug abuse prevention program 1-8 that receives grant funding from the agency: 1-9 (1) Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse; 1-10 (2) Texas Juvenile Probation Commission; 1-11 (3) Texas Youth Commission; and 1-12 (4) Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. 1-13 SECTION 2. EVALUATION OF PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS. The 1-14 agencies listed in Section 1 of this Act shall develop the criteria 1-15 in cooperation with other state agencies that provide grants to 1-16 drug abuse prevention programs. As a measure of a program's 1-17 effectiveness, the criteria developed must evaluate whether a 1-18 program is: 1-19 (1) targeting problems that are specific to a given 1-20 community or school; 1-21 (2) providing social services to children who have a 1-22 family member with a drug addiction; 1-23 (3) using strategies that are appropriate for children 1-24 of different ages; and 2-1 (4) providing continuity in services and intervention 2-2 strategies for all grade levels. 2-3 SECTION 3. RULES; ANNUAL REPORT. A state agency that 2-4 provides a grant to fund a drug abuse prevention program shall 2-5 adopt rules for evaluating the effectiveness of the program that 2-6 incorporate the criteria developed under Section 2 of this Act. 2-7 The agency by rule shall require the program to submit to the 2-8 agency an annual report that describes the program's effectiveness 2-9 in meeting the established criteria. 2-10 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-11 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.