73R6107 JRD-D
By Cuellar of Webb H.B. No. 41
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 41:
By Hunter of Taylor C.S.H.B. No. 41
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the establishment of the Texas Academy of Foreign
1-3 Languages and Culture.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-6 Subchapter O to read as follows:
1-7 SUBCHAPTER O. TEXAS ACADEMY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE
1-8 Sec. 61.781. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
1-9 (1) "Academy" means the Texas Academy of Foreign
1-10 Languages and Culture.
1-11 (2) "Director" means the director of the academy.
1-12 Sec. 61.782. ACADEMY. (a) The academy is established under
1-13 the board.
1-14 (b) The board shall employ a director and other personnel
1-15 necessary to administer this subchapter.
1-16 (c) The board may adopt rules to administer this subchapter.
1-17 (d) The board may receive gifts and grants to implement this
1-18 subchapter.
1-19 (e) The purpose of the academy is to:
1-20 (1) advance the study of foreign languages and
1-21 cultures in Texas; and
1-22 (2) advance educational and cultural exchange between
1-23 Texas and current and prospective trade partners.
1-24 Sec. 61.783. CONTRACTS. (a) The academy shall accomplish
2-1 its purposes through contracts with a National Endowment for the
2-2 Humanities grant recipient for this state under 20 U.S.C. Sec. 956.
2-3 The academy shall contract with a grant recipient to provide on
2-4 behalf of the academy:
2-5 (1) scholarships to selected college and university
2-6 juniors and seniors who are majoring in a foreign language and who
2-7 intend to pursue teaching careers;
2-8 (2) financial support to selected institutions and
2-9 organizations for cultural exchange programs between Texas and its
2-10 current and prospective trade partners that include photographic
2-11 exhibitions, film and video documentary programs, print resources,
2-12 conferences, and literary projects;
2-13 (3) financial support to selected teachers and
2-14 scholars to conduct lectures and research projects in key foreign
2-15 countries and to cover reasonable and necessary domestic expenses
2-16 of teachers and scholars of other nations qualified to lecture and
2-17 conduct research in Texas;
2-18 (4) financial support to selected colleges and
2-19 universities to host summer programs of three to four weeks in
2-20 duration in foreign language and culture studies, including the
2-21 study of key international issues, designed to improve the
2-22 knowledge and skills of foreign language teachers;
2-23 (5) financial support to selected colleges and
2-24 universities to sponsor programs of one or two weeks in duration
2-25 for interested high school students who have had at least two
2-26 successful years of foreign language study; and
2-27 (6) financial support to selected institutions that
3-1 will provide, for a fee, intensive foreign language instruction to
3-2 owners and representatives of businesses and to professionals in
3-3 this state who are doing or planning to do business with current
3-4 and prospective trade partners and who will pay for the
3-5 instruction.
3-6 (b) A contract with a grant recipient under Subsection (a)
3-7 of this section must provide that:
3-8 (1) the grant recipient shall award scholarships and
3-9 financial aid that uses academy money to persons and entities based
3-10 on a competitive program established by the grant recipient;
3-11 (2) the grant recipient shall establish controls
3-12 designed to ensure that persons and entities who receive
3-13 scholarships or financial support use the money for the intended
3-14 purpose;
3-15 (3) the grant recipient shall make regular reports to
3-16 the director on its expenditures under the contract, including the
3-17 identity of persons and entities chosen by the grant recipient to
3-18 receive scholarships or financial support under the contract, and
3-19 on other information related to the contract that may be required
3-20 by the director; and
3-21 (4) the transactions of the grant recipient under the
3-22 contract are subject to audit by the state auditor in accordance
3-23 with Chapter 321, Government Code.
3-24 (c) The grant recipient may also accomplish the purposes of
3-25 the subject matter of a contract under this section with money that
3-26 is not received under the contract, to the extent allowed under
3-27 this subchapter and federal law.
4-1 Sec. 61.784. COORDINATION. The academy shall establish an
4-2 interagency task force on international studies and cultural
4-3 exchange, coordinated by the academy, to develop long-range goals
4-4 designed to enhance foreign language and international studies and
4-5 to expand educational and cultural exchange. In addition to other
4-6 persons chosen for the task force by the academy, the academy shall
4-7 invite the governor, the commissioner of education, the
4-8 commissioner of higher education, the executive director of the
4-9 Texas Department of Commerce, and the executive director of the
4-10 Texas Committee for the Humanities to serve on the task force or to
4-11 designate a representative to serve on the task force. The academy
4-12 also shall invite the lieutenant governor to designate a member of
4-13 the senate to serve on the task force and shall invite the speaker
4-14 of the house of representatives to designate a member of the house
4-15 to serve on the task force.
4-16 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the authority granted by Section
4-17 61.782, Education Code, as added by this Act, for the fiscal
4-18 biennium beginning September 1, 1993:
4-19 (1) general revenue may not be appropriated for costs
4-20 related to the implementation of this Act, except as provided by
4-21 Subdivision (2) of this section; and
4-22 (2) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may
4-23 assign employees who are compensated from general revenue to
4-24 perform duties related to the Texas Academy of Foreign Languages
4-25 and Culture established by this Act only if, immediately before the
4-26 assignment, the employees are employed by the board primarily for
4-27 the purpose of performing duties that are not related to the
5-1 academy.
5-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
5-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-8 passage, and it is so enacted.