By: Lucio S.B. No. 295 73R3034 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. NONRESIDENT TEACHER CERTIFICATION CANDIDATES. 1-8 An individual who has an undergraduate or graduate degree and who 1-9 enrolls at an institution of higher education for the purpose of 1-10 obtaining credit necessary to qualify for a teaching certificate is 1-11 entitled to pay tuition at the institution at the rate applicable 1-12 to Texas residents without regard to the length of time the 1-13 individual has resided in this state. 1-14 SECTION 2. Section 54.066, Education Code, as added by this 1-15 Act, applies only to tuition that becomes due beginning with the 1-16 fall semester in 1993. Tuition that became due before that 1-17 semester is governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition 1-18 became due, and that law is continued in effect for this purpose 1-19 only. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.