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.