Bill Text: TX SB1750 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for employment positions provided through the Texas college work-study program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1750 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1750-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1750 | ||
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| relating to the requirements for employment positions provided | ||
| through the Texas college work-study program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 56.076, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.076. ELIGIBLE EMPLOYER. (a) An eligible | ||
| institution may enter into agreements with employers that | ||
| participate in the work-study program. To be eligible to | ||
| participate in the work-study program, an employer must: | ||
| (1) provide part-time employment to an eligible | ||
| student in nonpartisan and nonsectarian activities; | ||
| (2) provide, insofar as is practicable, employment to | ||
| an eligible student that is related to the student's academic | ||
| interests; | ||
| (3) use Texas college work-study program positions | ||
| only to supplement and not to supplant positions normally filled by | ||
| persons not eligible to participate in the work-study program; | ||
| (4) provide from sources other than federal college | ||
| work-study program funds a percentage of an employed student's | ||
| wages that is equal to the percentage of a student's wages that the | ||
| employer would be required to provide to the student in that | ||
| academic year under the federal college work-study program; and | ||
| (5) provide from sources other than federal college | ||
| work-study funds 100 percent of other employee benefits for the | ||
| employed student. | ||
| (b) Each eligible institution shall ensure that at least 20 | ||
| percent but not more than 50 percent of the employment positions | ||
| provided through the work-study program in an academic year are | ||
| provided by employers eligible under this section who are providing | ||
| employment located off campus. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 56.079(l), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (l) Notwithstanding Section 56.076(a) [ |
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| participating entity that employs a student mentor under the | ||
| work-study student mentorship program shall provide from sources | ||
| other than federal college work-study funds: | ||
| (1) not less than 10 percent of the employed student's | ||
| wages; and | ||
| (2) 100 percent of other employee benefits for the | ||
| employed student. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 56, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 56.082 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.082. BIENNIAL REPORT. (a) Not later than January | ||
| 1 of each odd-numbered year, the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board shall submit to the standing legislative | ||
| committees with primary jurisdiction over higher education and post | ||
| on the coordinating board's Internet website a report on the Texas | ||
| college work-study program. The report must include the total | ||
| number of students employed through the program, disaggregated by: | ||
| (1) the employment position's location on or off | ||
| campus; and | ||
| (2) the employer's status as a for-profit or nonprofit | ||
| entity. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board shall submit its initial report under | ||
| that subsection not later than May 1, 2019. This subsection expires | ||
| September 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act to Sections | ||
| 56.076 and 56.079, Education Code, apply to participation in the | ||
| Texas college work-study program beginning with the 2016-2017 | ||
| academic year. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1750 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2; | ||
| May 25, 2015, Senate refused to concur in House amendment and | ||
| requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 27, 2015, House | ||
| granted request of the Senate; May 30, 2015, Senate adopted | ||
| Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 29, | ||
| Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1750 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 123, | ||
| Nays 15, two present not voting; May 27, 2015, House granted | ||
| request of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee; | ||
| May 30, 2015, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 4, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
