By: Ratliff S.B. No. 34 73R250 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tuition paid by certain foreign students enrolled in a 1-3 public technical institute. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.060(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed in this chapter 1-8 does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident of a 1-9 state situated adjacent to Texas and who registers in any Texas 1-10 public junior college or public technical institute, as defined by 1-11 Section 61.003 of this code, that is situated in a county 1-12 immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident student 1-13 resides. The nonresident junior college or public technical 1-14 institute student described in this section shall pay an amount 1-15 equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student registered at a 1-16 similar school in the state in which the nonresident student 1-17 resides. The nonresident student described in this section shall 1-18 pay equivalent fees and charges to those charged Texas students 1-19 registered at a similar institution in the state in which the 1-20 nonresident student resides, when such student registers at a Texas 1-21 public senior upper level (those institutions offering only junior, 1-22 senior, and graduate level programs) institution of higher 1-23 education located within the Texas public junior college district 1-24 or within the county in which the public technical institute is 2-1 located and from which the nonresident student has graduated or 2-2 completed 45 semester credit hours. 2-3 SECTION 2. Section 54.060(a), Education Code, as amended by 2-4 this Act, applies only to tuition for the fall semester in 1993 and 2-5 thereafter. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.