1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1388
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 19, 1993; April 20, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 1993,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
1-5 April 29, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the student exchange program established by the Texas
1-22 Higher Education Coordinating Board.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. The heading of Section 54.060, Education Code, is
1-25 amended to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 54.060. Resident of Bordering State or Nation or
1-27 Participant in Student Exchange Program: Tuition.
1-28 SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 54.060, Education Code,
1-29 is amended to read as follows:
1-30 (c) The coordinating board by rule shall establish a program
1-31 with the United Mexican States and with Canada for the exchange of
1-32 students. The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this
1-33 chapter does not apply to a foreign student participating in the
1-34 exchange program.
1-35 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-36 54.060, Education Code, applies only to tuition that becomes due
1-37 beginning with the fall semester in 1993. Tuition that became due
1-38 before that semester is governed by the law in effect at the time
1-39 the tuition became due, and that law is continued in effect for
1-40 this purpose only.
1-41 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-42 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-49 Austin,
1-50 Texas
1-51 April 29, 1993
1-52 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-53 President of the Senate
1-54 Sir:
1-55 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B.
1-56 No. 1388, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-57 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-58 that it do pass and be printed.
1-59 Ratliff,
1-60 Chairman
1-61 * * * * *
1-62 WITNESSES
1-63 FOR AGAINST ON
1-64 ___________________________________________________________________
1-65 Name: Pamela A. Stephenson x
1-66 Representing: Herself
1-67 City: Pflugerville
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2-1 Name: Margaret A. Kidd x
2-2 Representing: Tx Assoc of International Edu
2-3 City: Austin
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2-5 Name: Joe W. Neal x
2-6 Representing: Self
2-7 City: Austin
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2-9 Name: Mack C. Adams x
2-10 Representing: Cooral Bd
2-11 City: Austin
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2-13 Name: Maricela Oliva x
2-14 Representing: Tx Higher Ed Coordinating Bd
2-15 City: Austin
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