1-1  By:  Goolsby, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Leedom)          H.B. No. 29
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  May 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 18, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to tuition-free higher education of senior citizens.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 54.210, Education Code, is amended by
   1-11  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-12        (c)  The governing board of an institution of higher
   1-13  education may allow a senior citizen to enroll for credit in up to
   1-14  six hours of courses offered by the institution each semester or
   1-15  summer term without payment of tuition if space is available.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
   1-17  of 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.
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