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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".
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