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.