By Munoz                                               H.B. No. 328
       74R2572 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to tuition for a resident of Mexico who registers at a
    1-3  component of the Texas State Technical College System.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 54.060(b) and (d), Education Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this
    1-8  chapter does not apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a
    1-9  nation situated adjacent to Texas, who registers in any general
   1-10  academic teaching institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) of
   1-11  this code, or component of the Texas State Technical College System
   1-12  in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign
   1-13  student resides, and, except as provided by this subsection, who
   1-14  demonstrates a financial need after the financial resources of the
   1-15  foreign student and the student's family are considered.  The
   1-16  foreign student described in this section shall pay tuition equal
   1-17  to that charged Texas residents under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512
   1-18  of this code. The coordinating board shall adopt rules governing
   1-19  the determination of financial need of students under this
   1-20  subsection and rules governing a pilot project to be established at
   1-21  general academic teaching institutions and at components of the
   1-22  Texas State Technical College System in counties that are not
   1-23  immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
   1-24  resides.
    2-1        (d)  The coordinating board shall adopt rules to determine
    2-2  the number of students who may participate in the programs provided
    2-3  by Subsections (b) and (c) of this section and the students who may
    2-4  transfer from any general academic teaching institution or
    2-5  component of the Texas State Technical College System in a county
    2-6  immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
    2-7  resides to attend a general academic teaching institution or
    2-8  component of the Texas State Technical College System to complete a
    2-9  degree, certificate, or diploma or to attend graduate school.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
   2-11  of 1995.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.