73R4974 SOS-D
          By Delco                                              H.B. No. 1356
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exempting certain persons from tuition, fees, and
    1-3  charges at public institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.203(b), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The exemptions provided for in Subsection (a) of this
    1-8  section also apply and inure to the benefit of the children of
    1-9  members of the armed forces of the United States who are or were
   1-10  killed in action, who die or died while in service, who are missing
   1-11  in action, or whose death is documented to be directly attributable
   1-12  to illness or injury resulting from service in the armed forces of
   1-13  the United States <during World War II, the national emergency
   1-14  which began on June 27, 1950, or the Cold War>, and to the benefit
   1-15  of orphans of members of the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air
   1-16  National Guard killed since January 1, 1946, while on active duty
   1-17  either in the service of their state or the United States.
   1-18  However, to qualify for this exemption a person must be a citizen
   1-19  of Texas and must have resided in the state for at least 12 months
   1-20  immediately preceding the date of his registration.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act applies to tuition, fees, and charges
   1-22  beginning with the fall semester 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.
    2-6                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-7        On page 1, line 11, delete the word "attributable", and
    2-8  replace it with the words "caused by";
    2-9        on page 1, line 12, delete the word "to";
   2-10        and, on page 1, line 12 delete the words "resulting from",
   2-11  and replace them with the words "connected with".
   2-12                                                                Delco