By Jackson S.B. No. 1747 76R7645 KEL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the funding of the Seaborne Conservation Corps or a 1-3 similar program at Texas A&M University at Galveston. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 87, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 87.207 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 87.207. SEABORNE CONSERVATION CORPS. If the board of 1-8 regents of The Texas A&M University System administers a program 1-9 that is substantially similar to the Seaborne Conservation Corps as 1-10 it was administered by the board during the 1998-1999 school year, 1-11 the program is entitled, for each student enrolled, to allotments 1-12 from the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42 as if the 1-13 program were a school district, except that the program has a local 1-14 share applied that is equivalent to the local fund assignment of 1-15 the school district in which the principal facilities of the 1-16 program are located. 1-17 SECTION 2. Funding under Section 87.207, Education Code, as 1-18 added by this Act, for a program covered by that section applies 1-19 beginning with the 1999-2000 school year. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.