1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 487
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1993; March 1, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 17, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 17, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 487 By: Zaffirini
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the establishment of the Texas Academy of Foreign
1-23 Languages and Culture.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-26 Subchapter O to read as follows:
1-27 SUBCHAPTER O. TEXAS ACADEMY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE
1-28 Sec. 61.781. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
1-29 (1) "Academy" means the Texas Academy of Foreign
1-30 Languages and Culture.
1-31 (2) "Director" means the director of the academy.
1-32 Sec. 61.782. ACADEMY. (a) The academy is established under
1-33 the board.
1-34 (b) The board shall employ a director and other personnel
1-35 necessary to administer this subchapter.
1-36 (c) The board may adopt rules to administer this subchapter.
1-37 (d) The board may receive gifts and grants to implement this
1-38 subchapter.
1-39 (e) The purpose of the academy is to:
1-40 (1) advance the study of foreign languages and
1-41 cultures in Texas;
1-42 (2) advance educational and cultural exchange between
1-43 Texas and current and prospective trade partners;
1-44 (3) encourage the involvement of nonprofit and private
1-45 entities in international studies and in cultural and educational
1-46 exchanges; and
1-47 (4) access federal and private funds for international
1-48 education.
1-49 Sec. 61.783. CONTRACTS. (a) The academy shall accomplish
1-50 its purposes through contracts with a National Endowment for the
1-51 Humanities grant recipient for this state under 20 U.S.C. Section
1-52 956. The academy shall contract with a grant recipient to provide
1-53 on behalf of the academy:
1-54 (1) scholarships to selected college and university
1-55 juniors and seniors who are majoring in a foreign language and who
1-56 intend to pursue teaching careers;
1-57 (2) financial support to selected institutions and
1-58 organizations for cultural exchange programs between Texas and its
1-59 current and prospective trade partners that include photographic
1-60 exhibitions, film and video documentary programs, print resources,
1-61 conferences, and literary projects;
1-62 (3) financial support to selected teachers and
1-63 scholars to lecture and conduct research projects in key foreign
1-64 countries and to cover reasonable and necessary domestic expenses
1-65 of teachers and scholars of other nations qualified to lecture and
1-66 conduct research in Texas;
1-67 (4) financial support to selected colleges and
1-68 universities to host summer programs of three to four weeks in
2-1 duration in foreign language and culture studies, including the
2-2 study of key international issues, designed to improve the
2-3 knowledge and skills of foreign language teachers;
2-4 (5) financial support to selected colleges and
2-5 universities to sponsor programs of one or two weeks in duration
2-6 for interested high school students who have had at least two
2-7 successful years of foreign language study; and
2-8 (6) financial support to selected institutions that
2-9 will provide, for a fee, intensive foreign language instruction to
2-10 owners and representatives of businesses and to professionals in
2-11 this state who are doing or plan to do business with current and
2-12 prospective trade partners and who will pay for the instruction.
2-13 (b) A contract with a grant recipient under Subsection (a)
2-14 of this section must provide that:
2-15 (1) the grant recipient shall award scholarships and
2-16 financial aid that uses academy money to persons and entities based
2-17 on a competitive program established by the grant recipient;
2-18 (2) the grant recipient shall establish controls
2-19 designed to ensure that persons and entities who receive
2-20 scholarships or financial support use the money for the intended
2-21 purpose;
2-22 (3) the grant recipient shall make regular reports to
2-23 the director on its expenditures under the contract, including the
2-24 identity of persons and entities chosen by the grant recipient to
2-25 receive scholarships or financial support under the contract, and
2-26 on other information related to the contract that may be required
2-27 by the director; and
2-28 (4) the transactions of the grant recipient under the
2-29 contract are subject to audit by the state auditor in accordance
2-30 with Chapter 321, Governmental Code.
2-31 (c) The grant recipient may also accomplish the purposes of
2-32 the subject matter of a contract under this section with money that
2-33 is not received under the contract, to the extent allowed under
2-34 this subchapter and federal law.
2-35 Sec. 61.784. COORDINATION. The academy shall establish an
2-36 interagency task force on international studies and cultural
2-37 exchange, coordinated by the academy, to develop long-range goals
2-38 designed to enhance foreign language and international studies and
2-39 to expand educational and cultural exchange. In addition to other
2-40 persons chosen for the task force by the academy, the academy shall
2-41 invite the governor, the commissioner of education, the
2-42 commissioner of higher education, the executive director of the
2-43 Texas Department of Commerce, and the executive director of the
2-44 Texas Committee for the Humanities to serve on the task force. The
2-45 academy also shall invite the lieutenant governor to designate a
2-46 member of the senate to serve on the task force and shall invite
2-47 the speaker of the house of representatives to designate a member
2-48 of the house of representatives to serve on the task force.
2-49 SECTION 2. General revenue may not be appropriated for costs
2-50 related to the implementation of this Act during the fiscal
2-51 biennium beginning September 1, 1993.
2-52 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-53 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-54 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-55 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-56 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-57 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-58 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-59 * * * * *
2-60 Austin,
2-61 Texas
2-62 March 17, 1993
2-63 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-64 President of the Senate
2-65 Sir:
2-66 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 487,
2-67 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-68 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-69 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-70 pass and be printed.
3-1 Ratliff,
3-2 Chairman
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