By Gutierrez                                          H.B. No. 1934
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1934:
          By Rangel                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1934
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the participation by institutions of higher education
    1-3  in the National Student Exchange Program.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 51.929 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.929.  NATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM.  (a)  In
    1-8  this section:
    1-9              (1)  "General academic teaching institution" has the
   1-10  meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code.
   1-11              (2)  "National student exchange program" means the
   1-12  program administered by the National Student Exchange, a nonprofit
   1-13  corporation.
   1-14        (b)  General academic teaching institutions may participate
   1-15  in the national student exchange program for the purpose of
   1-16  providing reciprocal educational opportunities for undergraduate
   1-17  students of colleges and universities in the United States.
   1-18        (c)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt
   1-19  rules relating to the participation of institutions of higher
   1-20  education and students in the national student exchange program.
   1-21        (d)  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 54.051 of this
   1-22  code, a nonresident exchange student participating in the program
   1-23  may be charged the resident tuition rate during the period of
   1-24  participation in the program.
    2-1        (e)  A student participating in the program from another
    2-2  state shall be exempt from the provisions of Section 51.306 of this
    2-3  code unless that student becomes a degree-seeking undergraduate
    2-4  student at a Texas public institution of higher education.
    2-5        (f)  A student may not participate in the program for more
    2-6  than one year.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.   The importance of this legislation
    2-8  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.