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
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2-3 Name: Mary Cheney x
2-4 Representing: Care Coalition
2-5 City: Austin
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2-7 Name: Kevin Fisher x
2-8 Representing: Self
2-9 City: San Antonio
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2-11 Name: Kevin Heilmann x
2-12 Representing: Self
2-13 City: San Antonio
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2-15 Name: Ms. Winifred Conlon x
2-16 Representing: Tx State Foster Parents,
2-17 Inc.
2-18 City: Austin
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2-20 Name: Cecile D. Durish x
2-21 Representing: PTA of Tx
2-22 City: Austin
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2-24 Name: Rifa Powell x
2-25 Representing: Tx Assoc of Licensed Child
2-26 Sv
2-27 City: Austin
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2-29 Name: Mack Adams x
2-30 Representing: Coordinating Board
2-31 City:
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