1-1     By:  Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)              H.B. No. 3126
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-3     May 14, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Human
 1-4     Services; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the establishment and application of uniform criteria
 1-9     for evaluating state-funded drug abuse prevention programs.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERIA.  The following
1-12     agencies by rule shall establish a uniform set of criteria for
1-13     evaluating the effectiveness of a drug abuse prevention program
1-14     that receives grant funding from the agency:
1-15                 (1)  Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse;
1-16                 (2)  Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;
1-17                 (3)  Texas Youth Commission; and
1-18                 (4)  Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
1-19           SECTION 2.  EVALUATION OF PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS.  The
1-20     agencies listed in Section 1 of this Act shall develop the criteria
1-21     in cooperation with other state agencies that provide grants to
1-22     drug abuse prevention programs.  As a measure of a program's
1-23     effectiveness, the criteria developed must evaluate whether a
1-24     program is:
1-25                 (1)  targeting problems that are specific to a given
1-26     community or school;
1-27                 (2)  providing social services to children who have a
1-28     family member with a drug addiction;
1-29                 (3)  using strategies that are appropriate for children
1-30     of different ages; and
1-31                 (4)  providing continuity in services and intervention
1-32     strategies for all grade levels.
1-33           SECTION 3.  RULES; ANNUAL REPORT.  A state agency that
1-34     provides a grant to fund a drug abuse prevention program shall
1-35     adopt rules for evaluating the effectiveness of the program that
1-36     incorporate the criteria developed under Section 2 of this Act.
1-37     The agency by rule shall require the program to submit to the
1-38     agency an annual report that describes the program's effectiveness
1-39     in meeting the established criteria.
1-40           SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
1-41     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-45     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-46     passage, and it is so enacted.
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