[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1677 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1677

To provide grants to States and local entities to integrate education, 
      medical, and social and human services to at-risk children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 1993

  Mr. Johnston of Florida (for himself, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Peterson of 
    Florida, Mr. Bacchus of Florida, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. Peterson of 
Minnesota, Mr. Romero-Barcelo, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Moran, and 
  Mrs. Collins of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide grants to States and local entities to integrate education, 
      medical, and social and human services to at-risk children.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Full-Service Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Congressional Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) one in five children entering school in 1993 lives in 
        poverty;
            (2) students from poor families are three times more likely 
        to drop out of school than students from more advantaged homes;
            (3) nearly 40 percent of the females who drop out of school 
        do so as a result of pregnancy;
            (4) in the past two decades, the percentage of women with 
        children under the age of six who are working or seeking 
        employment outside the home has nearly doubled;
            (5) more than 8 million children in this country have no 
        form of health insurance which may lead to untreated 
        conditions, unnecessary diseases and death;
            (6) more than 70 percent of the children who need 
        psychiatric treatment do not receive services;
            (7) children who are victims of child abuse, poverty, 
        malnutrition, lack of health care, alcohol and drug abuse are 
        at risk for failure;
            (8) without health and social intervention, at-risk 
        children are often unable to improve academic performance; and
            (9) to obtain improvements in the educational system, an 
        integrated system which includes comprehensive health and human 
        services for at-risk children and their families is necessary.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this Act--
            (1) to integrate service delivery systems to provide 
        comprehensive public education, training, health and human 
        services to at-risk children at locations accessible to and 
        utilized by such children and their families;
            (2) to achieve systemic reform at the Federal, State, and 
        local levels and to restructure service delivery at the local 
        level; and
            (3) to improve the educational performance of at-risk 
        children.

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL INTERAGENCY WORK GROUP.

    (a) In General.--There is established the Federal Interagency Work 
Group composed of the Secretaries of Education, Health and Human 
Services, and Labor and funded equally by the departments of the 
representative Secretaries to facilitate collaboration between agencies 
and to mobilize Federal policy to achieve systemic reform to meet the 
comprehensive needs of at-risk children and to provide grants to the 
States and local entities to develop similar programs at the State and 
local levels.
    (b) Duties.--The Group shall--
            (1) assist Federal, State, and local agencies in 
        developing, implementing, and evaluating service integration 
        programs under this Act;
            (2) to the greatest extent possible, coordinate agency 
        resources and funding allowing for the consolidation of Federal 
        categorical programs, when requests for such waivers are made;
            (3) establish and maintain a national data base that 
        includes the collaborative efforts of the Government, the 
        States, local entities, and private entities to serve at-risk 
        children;
            (4) make grants to the States to develop an interagency 
        work group and fund local efforts to integrate services for at-
        risk youth and their families;
            (5) determine the amounts of each grant by considering how 
        many local project sites the State interagency group can 
        reasonably target with not more than $200,000 allocated to a 
        site; and
            (6) waive certain Federal requirements that impede 
        collaborative efforts if such waivers will result in a more 
        efficient use of resources.
    (c) Fiscal Agent.--The Secretary of Education shall act as the 
fiscal agent for the Group.

SEC. 4. STATE ELIGIBILITY.

    To be eligible to receive a grant under this Act, a State shall--
            (1) establish a State interagency work group between, at a 
        minimum, the departments at the State level that provide public 
        education and health and human services;
            (2) develop preservice and inservice training that assists 
        staff members to understand the communities in which they work 
        and the full array of resources that are available to help at-
        risk children and their families;
            (3) require equal financial or in-kind contributions by the 
        departments referred to in paragraph (1);
            (4) state as a goal the integration of existing funding 
        sources from the departments represented;
            (5) designate a fiscal agent to be responsible for the 
        receipt and disbursement of Federal funds;
            (6) provide assurances that successful programs will be 
        used as models and that information regarding program successes 
        are disseminated throughout the State; and
            (7) assist local entities in developing interagency 
        agreements at the local level.

SEC. 5. LOCAL ELIGIBILITY.

    To be eligible to receive a grant under this Act, a local entity 
shall--
            (1) develop a community planning process that includes--
                    (A) parents and family members;
                    (B) local school officials;
                    (C) officials from institutions of higher education 
                if such institutions are located in the local area;
                    (D) public and private nonprofit organizations that 
                provide health care, education, employment training 
                services, child protective services or other human 
                services; and
                    (E) teachers selected by a local teacher 
                association;
            (2) develop mandatory services as recommended by the 
        planning group under paragraph (1);
            (3) if located in a city with a population of 100,000 or 
        more individuals--
                    (A) establish a local interagency work group 
                between a local educational agency eligible for funds 
                for chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and 
                Secondary Education Act of 1965 and, at a minimum, 1 
                nonprofit community-based organization which has 
                provided social services to low-income, at-risk youth 
                and their families; and
                    (B) include parents in the operation and governance 
                of the local interagency work group;
            (4) require equal financial or in-kind contributions of the 
        local educational agency and entities represented;
            (5) give an assurance that such entity shall make a 
        reasonable effort to initiate structural reform; and
            (6) designate a fiscal agent to receive funds from the 
        State under this Act.

SEC. 6. APPLICATIONS.

    (a) State Applications.--(1) A State that desires to receive a 
grant under this Act shall submit an application to the Federal 
Interagency Work Group in such form and containing such information as 
the Federal Interagency Work Group may reasonably require and which 
includes--
            (A) assurances that the eligibility requirements under 
        section 4 are or shall be met; and
            (B) program goals and objectives, including an 
        approximation of use for the number of project sites per State.
    (2) The Federal Interagency Work Group shall give priority 
consideration to States that include in the State interagency work 
group, nonprofit agencies, and private profit agencies that have worked 
with disadvantaged children and their families.
    (b) Local Applications.--A local entity that desires to receive a 
grant under this Act shall submit an application to the State 
interagency work group in such form and containing such information as 
the State may reasonably require and which includes--
            (A) assurances that the eligibility requirements under 
        section 5 are or shall be met; and
            (B) specifications regarding the targeted areas, goals of 
        the community, interim progress goals and the intended 
        outcomes.

SEC. 7. GRANT LIMITATIONS.

    (a) State Limitation.--A State interagency group that receives 
funds under this Act may not use more than $100,000 or not more than 3 
percent, whichever is less, of such funds for administrative and staff 
costs to establish an interagency work group. The balance of such funds 
shall be distributed to local entities.
    (b) Local Limitation.--A local educational agency that receives 
funds under this Act may not use more than 5 percent of such funds for 
administrative and staff costs to establish an interagency work group 
and not more than $200,000 per site.

SEC. 8. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Improvement Programs.--A local entity that receives funds under 
this Act shall develop or expand programs that are designed to improve 
educational performance by--
            (1) reducing school dropout rates;
            (2) reducing teenage pregnancy rates;
            (3) increasing the number of students who return to school 
        after dropping out;
            (4) improving access to primary health care for families 
        and their children;
            (5) increasing adult/family literacy; or
            (6) reducing the number of children in unsupervised 
        settings before and after school, holidays, and during the 
        summer months.
    (b) Optional Activities.--A local entity that receives funds under 
this Act may develop a variety of programs to serve the comprehensive 
needs of students, including--
            (1) job training and employment services;
            (2) homework assistance and after school programs;
            (3) mental health and family counseling;
            (4) nutrition education and services;
            (5) health care services;
            (6) bilingual education programs;
            (7) parental training programs; and
            (8) adult literacy programs.

SEC. 9. REPORTS.

    (a) Local Reports.--A local interagency work group that receives 
funds under this Act shall submit to the State interagency work group 
an annual report that describes and evaluates the services provided, 
including costs and benefits of services, including progress toward 
meeting goals and revised objectives.
    (b) State Reports.--A State interagency work group that receives 
funds under this Act shall submit to the Federal Interagency Work Group 
a report not later than the end of the second calendar year during 
which funds are received that evaluates the effectiveness of local 
programs in developing and maintaining integrated services for at-risk 
children.
    (c) Federal Reports.--The Federal Interagency Work Group that 
receives funds under this Act shall submit to the Congress a report not 
later than three years after the date of the enactment of this Act that 
includes a detailed analysis of student outcomes (such as dropout 
rates, academic performance, and usage of drug and alcohol) and systems 
outcomes (effectiveness of cooperative agreements between education and 
service agencies).

SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``at-risk children'' means individuals from 
        birth to 18 years of age, who attend a public school where 75 
        percent or more (for elementary) and 60 percent or more (for 
        secondary) of the students are eligible for the free and 
        reduced price lunch program, or are Native Americans attending 
        schools where the student population is composed of a majority 
        of Native Americans;
            (2) the term ``local entity'' means a local educational 
        agency and a community-based organization as defined in section 
        1471 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; and
            (3) the term ``State'' has the same meaning as such term in 
        section 1471 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965.

SEC. 11. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated $72,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996 to carry out the programs under this 
Act.

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