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          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, who is
    1-8  waiting for final approval of <is living in this country under> a
    1-9  visa permitting permanent residence, and whose parents have a visa
   1-10  permitting permanent residence <or who has filed with the proper
   1-11  federal immigration authorities a declaration of intention to
   1-12  become a citizen> has the same privilege of qualifying for resident
   1-13  status for fee purposes under this Act as has a citizen of the
   1-14  United States.  A resident alien residing in a junior college
   1-15  district located immediately adjacent to Texas boundary lines shall
   1-16  be charged the resident tuition by that junior college.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 54.057(a), Education Code, as amended by
   1-18  this Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with
   1-19  the fall semester 1993.  Tuition that became due before that
   1-20  semester is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition
   1-21  became due, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose
   1-22  only.
   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        Amend H.B. 2510 on page 1, line 7, between "school" and the
    2-8  comma, by inserting "in this state".
    2-9  73R10028 SOS-D                                               Duncan