By: Parker S.B. No. 177 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to tuition charged certain resident students at public 1-2 institutions of higher education. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 54.066 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.066. LIMITATIONS ON TUITION PAID AT RESIDENT RATES. 1-7 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each resident 1-8 student not entered in a degree or dual degree program requiring 1-9 more than 120 hours who has enrolled at a general academic teaching 1-10 institution for a total of 158 or more semester credit hours of 1-11 undergraduate instruction shall pay nonresident tuition for those 1-12 credit hours in excess of 158. 1-13 (b) The limitation of 158 semester credit hours of 1-14 undergraduate instruction at resident tuition shall not apply to a 1-15 resident student who has declared a major requiring more than 120 1-16 hours. Such student shall notify the academic institution where 1-17 the student is enrolled that the student's degree program sought is 1-18 a dual degree program or a program requiring more than 120 hours. 1-19 On such notification the institution shall allow the student, at 1-20 resident tuition rates, to take the amount of hours required to 1-21 achieve the degree program sought and an additional 38 hours above 1-22 the number of hours required for the declared degree program of the 1-23 student. Resident students taking hours beyond 38 hours plus the 1-24 number of hours required of a dual degree program or an 2-1 undergraduate degree program requiring more than 120 hours shall 2-2 pay out-of-state or nonresident tuition for those credit hours in 2-3 excess of the degree requirement plus 38 hours. 2-4 (c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may by 2-5 rule provide for hardship exceptions to this policy. 2-6 (d) In this section, "general academic teaching institution" 2-7 has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code. 2-8 SECTION 2. Section 54.066, Education Code, as added by this 2-9 Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with the 2-10 fall semester 1993. Tuition that became due before that semester 2-11 is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition became 2-12 due, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose only. 2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.