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.