By: Brown, Jackson S.B. No. 1026
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to cooperative programs between certain educational
1-2 institutions under which students may work at the Lyndon B. Johnson
1-3 Space Center.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Sections 130.010 and 130.011 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 130.010. HIGH SCHOOL COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM.
1-8 (a) The junior college district in which the Lyndon B. Johnson
1-9 Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1-10 is located may establish and coordinate a cooperative program with
1-11 one or more school districts under which high school students
1-12 enrolled in those districts may be employed by the junior college
1-13 district to work at the space center on a part-time basis during
1-14 the school year or on a part-time or full-time basis during school
1-15 holidays or vacations.
1-16 (b) The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center shall:
1-17 (1) place, supervise, and evaluate each student who
1-18 participates in the cooperative program; and
1-19 (2) ensure that the student performs work related to
1-20 the study of science, mathematics, or engineering to encourage
1-21 students to study those courses after high school graduation at an
1-22 institution of higher education.
1-23 (c) The school district in which a student who participates
1-24 in the cooperative program is enrolled shall, in cooperation with
2-1 the State Board of Education, determine the number, if any, and
2-2 type of credits toward high school graduation the student may be
2-3 given for participation in the program. If it is determined that
2-4 the student is to be given credit toward academic course
2-5 requirements for high school graduation, the number and type of
2-6 credits must be based on the type of work and the number of hours
2-7 of work in which the student participates.
2-8 (d) In establishing and coordinating the cooperative
2-9 program, the junior college district may use state funds
2-10 appropriated for that purpose and gifts, grants, and donations
2-11 solicited for that purpose. The junior college district shall use
2-12 money it receives in accordance with this subsection to pay the
2-13 costs associated with the cooperative program, including the wages
2-14 of students who participate in the cooperative program.
2-15 (e) A student who participates in the cooperative program
2-16 during regular school hours is considered to be attending school
2-17 for purposes of Section 25.085 during the time the student is
2-18 required under the program to be and is at work for the Lyndon B.
2-19 Johnson Space Center.
2-20 Sec. 130.011. JUNIOR COLLEGE COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM.
2-21 (a) The junior college district in which the Lyndon B. Johnson
2-22 Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2-23 is located may establish and coordinate a cooperative program with
2-24 one or more junior college districts under which junior college
2-25 students enrolled in those districts may be employed by the junior
2-26 college district in which the space center is located to work at
3-1 the space center on a part-time or full-time basis.
3-2 (b) The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center shall:
3-3 (1) place, supervise, and evaluate each student who
3-4 participates in the cooperative program; and
3-5 (2) ensure that the student performs work related to
3-6 the study of science, mathematics, or engineering to encourage
3-7 students to study those disciplines at an institution of higher
3-8 education.
3-9 (c) The junior college in which a student who participates
3-10 in the cooperative program is enrolled shall, in cooperation with
3-11 the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, determine the
3-12 number, if any, and type of credits toward a certificate or an
3-13 associate degree the student may be given for participation in the
3-14 program. If it is determined that the student is to be given
3-15 credit toward academic course requirements for a certificate or an
3-16 associate degree, the number and type of credits must be based on
3-17 the type of work and the number of hours of work in which the
3-18 student participates.
3-19 (d) In establishing and coordinating the cooperative
3-20 program, the junior college district may use state funds
3-21 appropriated for that purpose and gifts, grants, and donations
3-22 solicited for that purpose. The junior college district shall use
3-23 money it receives in accordance with this subsection to pay the
3-24 costs associated with the cooperative program, including the wages
3-25 of students who participate in the cooperative program.
3-26 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 109, Education Code, is
4-1 amended by adding Section 109.53 to read as follows:
4-2 Sec. 109.53. PUBLIC SENIOR COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE
4-3 EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) The board may establish and coordinate a
4-4 cooperative program with one or more public senior colleges or
4-5 universities under which undergraduate or graduate students
4-6 enrolled in those colleges or universities may be employed by Texas
4-7 Tech University to work at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center of
4-8 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on a part-time or
4-9 full-time basis.
4-10 (b) The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center shall:
4-11 (1) place, supervise, and evaluate each student who
4-12 participates in the cooperative program; and
4-13 (2) ensure that the student performs work related to
4-14 the study of science, mathematics, or engineering to encourage
4-15 students to complete their studies in those disciplines.
4-16 (c) The public senior college or university in which a
4-17 student who participates in the cooperative program is enrolled
4-18 shall, in cooperation with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
4-19 Board, determine the number, if any, and type of credits toward
4-20 graduation the student may be given for participation in the
4-21 program. If the college or university determines that the student
4-22 is to be given academic course credit toward graduation, the number
4-23 and type of credits must be based on the type of work and the
4-24 number of hours of work in which the student participates.
4-25 (d) In establishing and coordinating the cooperative
4-26 program, the board may use state funds appropriated for that
5-1 purpose and gifts, grants, and donations solicited for that
5-2 purpose. The board shall use money it receives in accordance with
5-3 this subsection to pay the costs associated with the cooperative
5-4 program, including the wages of students who participate in the
5-5 cooperative program.
5-6 (e) In this section, "public senior college or university"
5-7 has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
5-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
5-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-14 passage, and it is so enacted.