By Counts H.B. No. 435
74R3229 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the exemption from tuition of a resident student
1-3 enrolled in the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.205(a), Education Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
1-7 (5) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
1-8 assigned by Section 61.003, except that the term includes the
1-9 Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 131.005(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (a) A Texas resident student enrolled in the institute
1-13 <shall pay tuition at the rate provided by law for enrollment at
1-14 Howard County Junior College and> is <not> exempt from tuition fees
1-15 under Section 54.205 of this code.
1-16 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
1-17 of 1995.
1-18 SECTION 4. 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.