By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 201 73R1916 SOS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tuition charged certain students at public institutions 1-3 of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 54.066 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.066. NONRESIDENT TEACHER CERTIFICATION CANDIDATES. 1-8 An individual who has an undergraduate or graduate degree and who 1-9 enrolls at an institution of higher education for the purpose of 1-10 obtaining credit necessary to qualify for a teaching certificate in 1-11 this state is entitled to pay tuition at the institution at the 1-12 rate applicable to Texas residents without regard to the length of 1-13 time the individual has resided in this state. 1-14 SECTION 2. Section 54.066, Education Code, as added by this 1-15 Act, takes effect immediately and applies only to tuition that 1-16 becomes due beginning with the fall semester in 1993. Tuition that 1-17 became due before that semester is governed by the law in effect at 1-18 the time the tuition became due, and that law is continued in 1-19 effect for this purpose only. 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 according to its 2-2 terms, and it is so enacted.