By:  Hochberg                                          H.B. No. 447
       73R1545 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the residency of homeless individuals who register at
    1-3  public institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.052, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
    1-7        (i)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
    1-8  adopt rules allowing a homeless individual, as defined by 42 U.S.C.
    1-9  Sec. 11302, to be classified as a resident student.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 1994, the Texas Higher
   1-11  Education Coordinating Board shall adopt initial rules as required
   1-12  by Section 54.052(i), Education Code, as added by this Act.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.