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.  Section 606.064(a), Government Code, is amended
    1-5  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        SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act take effect
    2-2  only upon implementation of an agreement between the state of Texas
    2-3  and the Social Security Administration providing that student
    2-4  employees of institutions of higher education as those terms are
    2-5  defined in this Act are excluded from social security coverage.
    2-6        SECTION 4.  If this Act becomes effective, the comptroller
    2-7  shall reduce any remaining general revenue fund transfers to be
    2-8  made to an institution of higher education for the biennium
    2-9  beginning September 1, 1995 by an amount equal to one-half of the
   2-10  amount of the institution's remaining contributions to be made for
   2-11  student employees under Sec. 606.064, Government Code.  This
   2-12  reduction shall only apply to contributions for those student
   2-13  employees paid entirely from general revenue.
   2-14        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.