By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1388 73R8966 SOS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the student exchange program established by the Texas 1-3 Higher Education Coordinating Board. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The heading of Section 54.060, Education Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.060. Resident of Bordering State or Nation or 1-8 Participant in Student Exchange Program: Tuition. 1-9 SECTION 2. Section 54.060(c), Education Code, is amended to 1-10 read as follows: 1-11 (c) The coordinating board by rule shall establish a program 1-12 with the United Mexican States and with Canada for the exchange of 1-13 students. The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this 1-14 chapter does not apply to a foreign student participating in the 1-15 exchange program. 1-16 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section 1-17 54.060, Education Code, applies only to tuition that becomes due 1-18 beginning with the fall semester in 1993. Tuition that became due 1-19 before that semester is governed by the law in effect at the time 1-20 the tuition became due, and that law is continued in effect for 1-21 this purpose only. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.