By Mowery, Harris H.B. No. 1146 74R5090 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to tuition and fees at a public institution of higher 1-3 education for a nonresident student holding a competitive academic 1-4 scholarship. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 54.064, Education Code, is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-8 beginning with fees and charges due for the fall semester of 1995. 1-9 (b) A nonresident student who paid the fees and charges 1-10 required of Texas residents under Section 54.064, Education Code, 1-11 before the effective date of this Act remains eligible to pay the 1-12 fees and charges required of Texas residents under that section in 1-13 a term or semester in which the student meets the requirements of 1-14 that section as it existed on January 1, 1995, until the earlier 1-15 of: 1-16 (1) the date the student completes or withdraws from 1-17 the degree program in which the student was enrolled on the 1-18 effective date of this Act; or 1-19 (2) the fall semester of 1997. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.