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.