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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Altamirano

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/24/07

HB

SHORT TITLE Mentoring Services In Underserved Areas

SB 337

ANALYST Propst

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$2,000.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicates House Bill 339

Relates to Senate Bill 129

Relates to an appropriation of $500.0 in the General Appropriations Act for FY08.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Making an Appropriation to Expand Mentoring Services in Unserved and Underserved Areas of

the State.

Senate Bill 337 appropriates $2,000.0 from the General Fund to the Department of Finance and

Administration to improve infrastructure development, including equipment, training, initial

staffing, recruitment and materials, to create new mentoring programs for children unserved and

in underserved areas of the state.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $2,000.0 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.

Senate Bill 337 – Page

2

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall revert to the

General Fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

This one time funding request will provide the infrastructural improvements needed to expand

matches of at-risk youth to adult mentors in unserved and underserved areas of the state. The

funding will expand programming into each quadrant of the state. In 2006, 3100 at-risk youth

were matched with volunteer adult mentors. With the program expansion it is projected that this

number will increase to matching at least 5,100 at-risk youth with volunteer adult mentors.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Duplicates House Bill 339 and relates to Senate Bill 129.

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