By Flores H.B. No. 2510
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the tuition charged certain students at public
1-3 institutions of higher education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.057(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) An alien who has graduated from high school in this
1-8 state, who is waiting for final approval of <is living in this
1-9 country under> a visa permitting permanent residence, and whose
1-10 parents have a visa permitting permanent residence <or who has
1-11 filed with the proper federal immigration authorities a declaration
1-12 of intention to become a citizen> has the same privilege of
1-13 qualifying for resident status for fee purposes under this Act as
1-14 has a citizen of the United States. A resident alien residing in a
1-15 junior college district located immediately adjacent to Texas
1-16 boundary lines shall be charged the resident tuition by that junior
1-17 college.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 54.057(a), Education Code, as amended by
1-19 this Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with
1-20 the fall semester 1993. Tuition that became due before that
1-21 semester is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition
1-22 became due, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose
1-23 only.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.