1-1 By: Shelley, Madla S.B. No. 318 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1993; February 11, 1993, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 March 3, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 3, 1993, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Ratliff x 1-10 Haley x 1-11 Barrientos x 1-12 Bivins x 1-13 Harris of Tarrant x 1-14 Luna x 1-15 Montford x 1-16 Shapiro x 1-17 Sibley x 1-18 Turner x 1-19 Zaffirini x 1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 318 By: Barrientos 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to tuition and fee exemptions at institutions of higher 1-24 education and public technical institutes for certain students in 1-25 foster or other residential care. 1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-27 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-28 amended by adding Section 54.211 to read as follows: 1-29 Sec. 54.211. EXEMPTIONS FOR STUDENTS IN FOSTER OR OTHER 1-30 RESIDENTIAL CARE. A student is exempt from the payment of tuition 1-31 and fees authorized in this chapter if the student: 1-32 (1) was in foster care or other residential care under 1-33 the conservatorship of the Department of Protective and Regulatory 1-34 Services on or after the day preceding the student's 18th birthday; 1-35 and 1-36 (2) enrolls in an institution of higher education as 1-37 an undergraduate student not later than the third anniversary of 1-38 the date the student was discharged from the foster or other 1-39 residential care. 1-40 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the collection of 1-41 tuition and fees for the fall semester of 1993. 1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-48 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-49 * * * * * 1-50 Austin, 1-51 Texas 1-52 March 3, 1993 1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-54 President of the Senate 1-55 Sir: 1-56 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 318, 1-57 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to 1-58 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not 1-59 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do 1-60 pass and be printed. 1-61 Ratliff, 1-62 Chairman 1-63 * * * * * 1-64 WITNESSES 1-65 FOR AGAINST ON 1-66 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-67 Name: Pat Devin x 1-68 Representing: Tx Dept of Prot and Reg. 2-1 City: Austin 2-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-3 Name: Mary Cheney x 2-4 Representing: Care Coalition 2-5 City: Austin 2-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-7 Name: Kevin Fisher x 2-8 Representing: Self 2-9 City: San Antonio 2-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-11 Name: Kevin Heilmann x 2-12 Representing: Self 2-13 City: San Antonio 2-14 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-15 Name: Ms. Winifred Conlon x 2-16 Representing: Tx State Foster Parents, 2-17 Inc. 2-18 City: Austin 2-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-20 Name: Cecile D. Durish x 2-21 Representing: PTA of Tx 2-22 City: Austin 2-23 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-24 Name: Rifa Powell x 2-25 Representing: Tx Assoc of Licensed Child 2-26 Sv 2-27 City: Austin 2-28 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-29 Name: Mack Adams x 2-30 Representing: Coordinating Board 2-31 City: 2-32 -------------------------------------------------------------------