HBA-MPM H.B. 2783 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2783
By: Gray
Public Education
4/20/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The Seaborne Conservation Corps (SCC) is a preventive 17.5 month volunteer
program for nonadjudicated, drug-free, 16- to 18-year-old high school
drop-outs.  SCC teaches Texas teens in a structured military environment on
board a Navy barge on the Texas A&M at Galveston campus. Graduates of this
program receive a GED, life skills training, and career counseling for
placement in college, the military, or employment in the private sector.
H.B. 2783 entitles a program similar to SCC to allotments from the program
under Chapter 42 (Foundation School Program), Education Code, for each
student enrolled. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

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

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

SECTION 2.  Makes funding under this Act for a program covered by the Act
applicable beginning with the 1999-2000 school year. 

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