1-1  By:  Rosson                                           S.B. No. 1019
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 9, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 3, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 12, Nays 0;
    1-5  April 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to social security coverage of certain student employees
    1-9  of public institutions of higher education.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 606.064, Government Code,
   1-12  is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  The state shall pay all contributions on wages for
   1-14  social security coverage of a state employee except:
   1-15              (1)  as provided by Section 606.065 or 606.073; or
   1-16              (2)  the amount of the employee tax in excess of 5.85
   1-17  percent of wages computed on a wage base of $16,500 in a calendar
   1-18  year.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 606, Government Code, is
   1-20  amended by adding Section 606.073 to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 606.073.  STUDENT EMPLOYEES OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
   1-22  EDUCATION.  (a)  A student employee of an institution of higher
   1-23  education is exempt from social security coverage.
   1-24        (b)  In this section:
   1-25              (1)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
   1-26  assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
   1-27              (2)  "Student employee" means a student enrolled and
   1-28  regularly attending classes in an institution of higher education
   1-29  and who is employed by the institution for not more than 30 hours a
   1-30  week during a regular or summer session.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act take effect
   1-32  only on implementation of an agreement between the State of Texas
   1-33  and the Social Security Administration providing that student
   1-34  employees of institutions of higher education as those terms are
   1-35  defined in this Act are excluded from social security coverage.
   1-36        SECTION 4.  If this Act becomes effective, the comptroller
   1-37  shall reduce any remaining General Revenue Fund transfers to be
   1-38  made to an institution of higher education for the biennium
   1-39  beginning September 1, 1995, by an amount equal to one-half of the
   1-40  amount of the institution's remaining contributions to be made for
   1-41  student employees under Section 606.064, Government Code.  This
   1-42  reduction shall only apply to contributions for those student
   1-43  employees paid entirely from general revenue.
   1-44        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-45  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-46  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-47  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-48  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-49  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-50  passage, and it is so enacted.
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