By Goolsby                                              H.B. No. 29
       74R631 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to tuition-free higher education of senior citizens.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 54.210, Education Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  The governing board of an institution of higher
    1-7  education shall allow a senior citizen to enroll for credit in up
    1-8  to six hours of courses offered by the institution each semester or
    1-9  summer term without payment of tuition if space is available.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
   1-11  of 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.
   1-19                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   1-20        Amend H.B. No. 29 as follows:
   1-21        (1)  On page 1, line 7, strike "shall" and insert "may".
   1-22                                                                Ogden