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.