By: Sims S.B. No. 99 73R1858 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tuition charged certain students at public institutions 1-3 of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 54.066 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.066. CERTAIN FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. An 1-8 individual is entitled to pay tuition and other fees at an 1-9 institution of higher education at the rates applicable to Texas 1-10 residents without regard to the length of time the individual has 1-11 resided in this state if: 1-12 (1) the individual was born in this state; 1-13 (2) the individual was employed by the federal 1-14 government in a position located in Washington, D.C.; and 1-15 (3) employment in that position terminated not earlier 1-16 than the 90th day before the date the individual enrolls at the 1-17 institution. 1-18 SECTION 2. Section 54.066, Education Code, as added by this 1-19 Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with the 1-20 fall semester in 1993. Tuition that became due before that 1-21 semester is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition 1-22 became due, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose 1-23 only. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.