SRC-JJJ S.B. 1575 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1575
76R9362 CAG-FBy: West
Education
4/19/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, Texas law authorizes the Texas Workforce Commission to collect
fees for the regulation of the proprietary schools and states that the fees
shall be used only for the administration of proprietary schools.  Texas
law also provides that the proprietary schools pay a fee to the credit of
the "proprietary school tuition fund."  This fund would be used to provide
funds for the transfer of students enrolled in a proprietary school that is
closed before the student's education is completed. S.B. 1575 would
establish provisions regarding the deposit of excess proprietary school
fees to the proprietary school tuition protection fund. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 1575 establishes provisions regarding the deposit of
excess proprietary school fees to the proprietary school tuition protection
fund. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 132.241, Education Code, by adding Subsection
(e), to authorize the Texas Workforce Commission (commission)  to transfer
any portion of the excess amount to the tuition protection fund, if at the
end of the fiscal year the commission determines that it has collected fees
in excess of the amount necessary to defray the cost and expense of
administering this chapter. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.