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.