HBA-JRA S.B. 1747 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 1747 By: Jackson Public Education 5/12/1999 Engrossed 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. S.B. 1747 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.