By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 3126
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                                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.