By:  Rosson                                           S.B. No. 1019
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to social security coverage of certain student employees
    1-2  of public institutions of higher education.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 606.064, Government Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The state shall pay all contributions on wages for
    1-7  social security coverage of a state employee except:
    1-8              (1)  as provided by Section 606.065 or 606.073; or
    1-9              (2)  the amount of the employee tax in excess of 5.85
   1-10  percent of wages computed on a wage base of $16,500 in a calendar
   1-11  year.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 606, Government Code, is
   1-13  amended by adding Section 606.073 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 606.073.  STUDENT EMPLOYEES OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
   1-15  EDUCATION.  (a)  A student employee of an institution of higher
   1-16  education is exempt from social security coverage.
   1-17        (b)  In this section:
   1-18              (1)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
   1-19  assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
   1-20              (2)  "Student employee" means a student enrolled and
   1-21  regularly attending classes in an institution of higher education
   1-22  and who is employed by the institution for not more than 30 hours a
   1-23  week during a regular or summer session.
    2-1        (c)  Subsection (a) takes effect on the first January 1 on
    2-2  which or following the date on which:
    2-3              (1)  federal law is amended to permit the exemption of
    2-4  a student employee of an institution of higher education from
    2-5  social security coverage; or
    2-6              (2)  the comptroller, on behalf of the institutions of
    2-7  higher education, enters into an agreement with the Social Security
    2-8  Administration that exempts or permits this state to exempt a
    2-9  student employee of an institution of higher education from social
   2-10  security coverage.
   2-11        (d)  Not later than October 1, 1995, the comptroller shall
   2-12  enter into negotiations with the Social Security Administration to
   2-13  reach an agreement as provided by Subsection (c)(2).
   2-14        (e)  If the comptroller determines that the action described
   2-15  by Subsection (c)(1) or (2) has occurred, the comptroller shall
   2-16  notify the secretary of state of the determination.  The secretary
   2-17  of state shall publish the notice in the Texas Register.
   2-18        (f)  If Subsection (a) takes effect, the comptroller shall
   2-19  reduce the amount appropriated from the general revenue fund to an
   2-20  institution of higher education for contributions for student
   2-21  employees under Section 606.064 for the biennium in which
   2-22  Subsection (a) takes effect, less the portion of that amount
   2-23  already transferred to the institution, by one-half.  This
   2-24  subsection applies only to appropriations for contributions for
   2-25  student employees paid entirely from the general revenue fund.
    3-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-7  passage, and it is so enacted.