By: Rangel H.B. No. 620 73R1367 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tuition at Texas A&I University charged to residents of 1-3 bordering nations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.060(b), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this 1-8 chapter does not apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a 1-9 nation situated adjacent to Texas, who registers in any general 1-10 academic teaching institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) of 1-11 this code, in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which 1-12 the foreign student resides or who registers in Texas A&I 1-13 University, and, except as provided by this subsection, who 1-14 demonstrates a financial need after the financial resources of the 1-15 foreign student and the student's family are considered. The 1-16 foreign student described in this section shall pay tuition equal 1-17 to that charged Texas residents under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 1-18 of this code. The coordinating board shall adopt rules governing 1-19 the determination of financial need of students under this 1-20 subsection and rules governing a pilot project to be established at 1-21 general academic teaching institutions in counties that are not 1-22 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student 1-23 resides. 1-24 SECTION 2. Section 54.060(b), Education Code, as amended by 2-1 this Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with 2-2 the fall semester in 1993. Tuition that became due before that 2-3 semester is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition 2-4 became due. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.