S.B. No. 34
                                        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
    1-8  Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma <a state situated
    1-9  adjacent to Texas> and who registers in any Texas public junior
   1-10  college or public technical institute, as defined by Section 61.003
   1-11  of this code, that is situated in a county immediately adjacent to
   1-12  the state in which the nonresident student resides.  The
   1-13  nonresident tuition fee prescribed in this chapter does not apply
   1-14  to a nonresident student who is a resident of New Mexico or
   1-15  Oklahoma and who registers in a public technical institute that is
   1-16  situated in a county that is within 100 miles of the state in which
   1-17  the nonresident student resides and who is admitted for the purpose
   1-18  of utilizing available instructional facilities. The nonresident
   1-19  junior college or public technical institute student described in
   1-20  this section shall pay an amount equivalent to the amount charged a
   1-21  Texas student registered at a similar school in the state in which
   1-22  the nonresident student resides.  The nonresident student described
   1-23  in this section shall pay equivalent fees and charges to those
   1-24  charged Texas students registered at a similar institution in the
    2-1  state in which the nonresident student resides, when such student
    2-2  registers at a Texas public senior upper level (those institutions
    2-3  offering only junior, senior, and graduate level programs)
    2-4  institution of higher education located within the Texas public
    2-5  junior college district or within the county in which the public
    2-6  technical institute is located or adjacent to such county and from
    2-7  which the nonresident student has graduated or completed 45
    2-8  semester credit hours.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  Section 54.060, Education Code, is amended by
   2-10  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   2-11        (e)  The payment of resident tuition at a public technical
   2-12  institute as authorized by Subsection (a) of this section does not
   2-13  affect the constitutionally dedicated funding to which institutions
   2-14  of higher education are entitled under Article VII, Section 17, of
   2-15  the Texas Constitution.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 54.060, Education Code,
   2-17  as amended by this Act, applies only to tuition for the fall
   2-18  semester in 1993 and thereafter.
   2-19        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-25  passage, and it is so enacted.