HCS/HBs 2262 & 2264 - This act allows the adjutant general of the Missouri National Guard to establish the Missouri Youth Challenge Academy. This academy will provide residential, military-based training and supervised work experience to at-risk high school age youth. The act creates the Missouri Youth Challenge Fund to fund the academy. The fund consists of gifts, donations, appropriations, transfers and bequests. The adjutant general is given authority to establish rules to administer the Missouri Youth Challenge Academy and to make grants from the fund. This act has an emergency clause.
This act is identical to a provision of SCS/HCS/HB 1524 & 2260 (2010).
EMILY KALMER