By: Shelley S.B. No. 1359
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to repealing the exemption of certain students from paying
1-2 tuition charged by public institutions of higher education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. The heading to Section 54.207, Education Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 54.207. STUDENTS FROM OTHER NATIONS OF THE AMERICAN
1-7 HEMISPHERE AND CERTAIN TEXAS RESIDENTS.
1-8 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 54.207, Education Code,
1-9 is amended to read as follows:
1-10 (a) The governing boards of the institutions of higher
1-11 education may annually exempt from the payment of tuition and fees
1-12 for undergraduate courses the following students who demonstrate
1-13 financial need, as defined by the Texas Higher Education
1-14 Coordinating Board:
1-15 (1) 100 <200> native-born students from the other
1-16 nations of the American hemisphere; <and>
1-17 (2) 35 native-born students from a Latin American
1-18 country designated by the United States Department of State; and
1-19 (3) 100 students who are Texas residents, as defined
1-20 by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board rule.
1-21 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-22 to tuition and fees that become due beginning with the fall
1-23 semester in 1995. Tuition and fees that became due before that
1-24 semester are governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition
2-1 and fees became due, and that law is continued in effect for that
2-2 purpose only.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from August 1, 1995.