78R8616 KKA-D

By:  Pitts                                                        H.B. No. 3172



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to funding of the Communities In Schools program.                    
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 264.756(a), Family Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  
	(a)  The department may [shall] develop and implement an 
equitable formula for the funding of local Communities In Schools 
programs.  [The formula may provide for the reduction of funds 
annually contributed by the state to a local program by an amount 
not more than 50 percent of the amount contributed by the state for 
the first year of the program.] The formula must consider the 
financial resources of individual communities and school 
districts.  [Savings accomplished through the implementation of the 
formula may be used to extend services to counties and 
municipalities currently not served by a local program or to extend 
services to counties and municipalities currently served by an 
existing local program.]
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.