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.