By: Ratliff S.B. No. 34 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to tuition paid by certain nonresident students enrolled 1-2 in a public technical institute. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.060, Education Code, 1-5 is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed in this chapter 1-7 does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident of a 1-8 state situated adjacent to Texas and who registers in any Texas 1-9 public junior college or public technical institute, as defined by 1-10 Section 61.003 of this code, that is situated in a county 1-11 immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident student 1-12 resides. The nonresident junior college or public technical 1-13 institute student described in this section shall pay an amount 1-14 equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student registered at a 1-15 similar school in the state in which the nonresident student 1-16 resides. The nonresident student described in this section shall 1-17 pay equivalent fees and charges to those charged Texas students 1-18 registered at a similar institution in the state in which the 1-19 nonresident student resides, when such student registers at a Texas 1-20 public senior upper level (those institutions offering only junior, 1-21 senior, and graduate level programs) institution of higher 1-22 education located within the Texas public junior college district 1-23 or within the county in which the public technical institute is 1-24 located and from which the nonresident student has graduated or 2-1 completed 45 semester credit hours. 2-2 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 54.060, Education Code, 2-3 as amended by this Act, applies only to tuition for the fall 2-4 semester in 1993 and thereafter. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.