By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1747
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the funding of the Seaborne Conservation Corps or a
 1-2     similar program at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 87, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 87.207 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 87.207.  SEABORNE CONSERVATION CORPS.  If the board of
 1-7     regents of The Texas A&M University System administers a program
 1-8     that is substantially similar to the Seaborne Conservation Corps as
 1-9     it was administered by the board during the 1998-1999 school year,
1-10     the program is entitled, for each student enrolled, to allotments
1-11     from the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42 as if the
1-12     program were a school district, except that the program has a local
1-13     share applied that is equivalent to the local fund assignment of
1-14     the school district in which the principal facilities of the
1-15     program are located.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Funding under Section 87.207, Education Code, as
1-17     added by this Act, for a program covered by that section applies
1-18     beginning with the 1999-2000 school year.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.