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 E, Chapter 111, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Sections 111.86 and 111.87 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 111.86. HIGH SCHOOL COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM.
1-8 (a) The university may establish and coordinate a cooperative
1-9 program with one or more school districts under which high school
1-10 students enrolled in those districts may be employed by the
1-11 university to work at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center of the
1-12 National Aeronautics and Space Administration on a part-time basis
1-13 during the school year or on a part-time or full-time basis during
1-14 school holidays or vacations.
1-15 (b) The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center shall:
1-16 (1) place, supervise, and evaluate each student who
1-17 participates in the cooperative program; and
1-18 (2) ensure that the student performs work related to
1-19 the study of science, mathematics, or engineering to encourage
1-20 students to study those courses after high school graduation at an
1-21 institution of higher education.
1-22 (c) The school district in which a student who participates
1-23 in the cooperative program is enrolled shall, in cooperation with
1-24 the State Board of Education, determine the number, if any, and
2-1 type of credits toward high school graduation the student may be
2-2 given for participation in the program. If it is determined that
2-3 the student is to be given credit toward academic course
2-4 requirements for high school graduation, the number and type of
2-5 credits must be based on the type of work and the number of hours
2-6 of work in which the student participates.
2-7 (d) In establishing and coordinating the cooperative
2-8 program, the university may use state funds appropriated for that
2-9 purpose and gifts, grants, and donations solicited for that
2-10 purpose. The university shall use money it receives in accordance
2-11 with this subsection to pay the costs associated with the
2-12 cooperative program, including the wages of students who
2-13 participate in the cooperative program.
2-14 (e) A student who participates in the cooperative program
2-15 during regular school hours is considered to be attending school
2-16 for purposes of Section 25.085 during the time the student is
2-17 required under the program to be and is at work for the Lyndon B.
2-18 Johnson Space Center.
2-19 Sec. 111.87. JUNIOR COLLEGE COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM.
2-20 (a) The university may establish and coordinate a cooperative
2-21 program with one or more junior college districts under which
2-22 junior college students enrolled in those districts may be employed
2-23 by the university to work at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
2-24 on a part-time or full-time basis.
2-25 (b) The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center shall:
2-26 (1) place, supervise, and evaluate each student who
3-1 participates in the cooperative program; and
3-2 (2) ensure that the student performs work related to
3-3 the study of science, mathematics, or engineering to encourage
3-4 students to study those disciplines at an institution of higher
3-5 education.
3-6 (c) The junior college in which a student who participates
3-7 in the cooperative program is enrolled shall, in cooperation with
3-8 the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, determine the
3-9 number, if any, and type of credits toward a certificate or an
3-10 associate degree the student may be given for participation in the
3-11 program. If it is determined that the student is to be given
3-12 credit toward academic course requirements for a certificate or an
3-13 associate degree, the number and type of credits must be based on
3-14 the type of work and the number of hours of work in which the
3-15 student participates.
3-16 (d) In establishing and coordinating the cooperative
3-17 program, the university may use state funds appropriated for that
3-18 purpose and gifts, grants, and donations solicited for that
3-19 purpose. The university shall use money it receives in accordance
3-20 with this subsection to pay the costs associated with the
3-21 cooperative program, including the wages of students who
3-22 participate in the cooperative program.
3-23 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
3-24 amended by adding Section 61.078 to read as follows:
3-25 Sec. 61.078. PUBLIC SENIOR COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE
3-26 EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) The board may establish and coordinate a
4-1 cooperative program with one or more public senior colleges or
4-2 universities under which undergraduate or graduate students
4-3 enrolled in those colleges or universities may be employed by the
4-4 board to work at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center of the National
4-5 Aeronautics and Space Administration on a part-time or full-time
4-6 basis.
4-7 (b) The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center shall:
4-8 (1) place, supervise, and evaluate each student who
4-9 participates in the cooperative program; and
4-10 (2) ensure that the student performs work related to
4-11 the study of science, mathematics, or engineering to encourage
4-12 students to complete their studies in those disciplines.
4-13 (c) The public senior college or university in which a
4-14 student who participates in the cooperative program is enrolled
4-15 shall, in cooperation with the board, determine the number, if any,
4-16 and type of credits toward graduation the student may be given for
4-17 participation in the program. If the college or university
4-18 determines that the student is to be given academic course credit
4-19 toward graduation, the number and type of credits must be based on
4-20 the type of work and the number of hours of work in which the
4-21 student participates.
4-22 (d) In establishing and coordinating the cooperative
4-23 program, the board may use state funds appropriated for that
4-24 purpose and gifts, grants, and donations solicited for that
4-25 purpose. The board shall use money it receives in accordance with
4-26 this subsection to pay the costs associated with the cooperative
5-1 program, including the wages of students who participate in the
5-2 cooperative program.
5-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
5-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-9 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1026 passed the Senate on
April 14, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 28, 1999, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1026 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor