By: Parker S.B. No. 177 73R2552 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tuition charged certain resident students at public 1-3 institutions 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. LIMITATIONS ON TUITION PAID AT RESIDENT RATES. 1-8 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each resident 1-9 student who has enrolled at a general academic teaching institution 1-10 for a total of 158 or more semester credit hours of undergraduate 1-11 instruction and who enrolls at a general academic teaching 1-12 institution for one or more additional semester credit hours of 1-13 undergraduate instruction shall pay nonresident tuition for those 1-14 credit hours. 1-15 (b) If a resident student transfers from a general academic 1-16 teaching institution to another general academic teaching 1-17 institution, the institution from which the student transfers is 1-18 required to provide to the institution to which the student 1-19 transfers the total number of semester credit hours in which that 1-20 student has enrolled at any general academic teaching institution 1-21 before the date of transfer. 1-22 (c) In this section, "general academic teaching institution" 1-23 has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003 of this code. 1-24 SECTION 2. Section 54.066, Education Code, as added by this 2-1 Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with the 2-2 fall semester in 1993. Tuition that became due before that 2-3 semester is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition 2-4 became due, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose 2-5 only. 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.