By Telford                                             H.B. No. 938
       74R1309 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to tuition fees at public upper-level institutions of
    1-3  higher education for students residing in bordering states.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.060(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by <in> this
    1-8  chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
    1-9  of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma and who registers
   1-10  in any Texas public upper-level institution of higher education,
   1-11  public junior college, or public technical institute, as defined by
   1-12  Section 61.003 of this code, that is situated in a county
   1-13  immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident student
   1-14  resides.  The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by <in> this
   1-15  chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
   1-16  of New Mexico or Oklahoma and who registers in a public technical
   1-17  institute that is situated in a county that is within 100 miles of
   1-18  the state in which the nonresident student resides and who is
   1-19  admitted for the purpose of utilizing available instructional
   1-20  facilities.  A <The> nonresident <junior college or public
   1-21  technical institute> student described by <in> this section shall
   1-22  pay an amount equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student
   1-23  registered at a similar school in the state in which the
   1-24  nonresident student resides.  <The nonresident student described in
    2-1  this section shall pay equivalent fees and charges to those charged
    2-2  Texas students registered at a similar institution in the state in
    2-3  which the nonresident student resides, when such student registers
    2-4  at a Texas public senior upper level (those institutions offering
    2-5  only junior, senior, and graduate level programs) institution of
    2-6  higher education located within the Texas public junior college
    2-7  district or within the county in which the public technical
    2-8  institute is located or adjacent to such county and from which the
    2-9  nonresident student has graduated or completed 45 semester credit
   2-10  hours.>
   2-11        SECTION 2.  Section 61.003, Education Code, is amended by
   2-12  adding Subsection (16) to read as follows:
   2-13              (16)  "Public upper-level institution of higher
   2-14  education" means an institution of higher education that offers
   2-15  only junior-, senior-, and graduate-level courses.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies
   2-17  beginning with tuition fees due for the fall semester of 1995.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.