By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 1462
       74R3637 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the tuition charged to certain nonresident students at
    1-3  certain public technical institutes.
    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 in this chapter
    1-8  does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident of
    1-9  Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma and who registers in
   1-10  any Texas public junior college, as defined by Section 61.003 of
   1-11  this code, or at any campus or extension center of a public
   1-12  technical institute, as defined by Section 61.003 of this code,
   1-13  that is situated in a county immediately adjacent to the state in
   1-14  which the nonresident student resides.  The nonresident tuition fee
   1-15  prescribed in this chapter does not apply to a nonresident student
   1-16  who is a resident of New Mexico or Oklahoma and who registers at a
   1-17  campus or extension center of <in> a public technical institute
   1-18  that is situated in a county that is within 100 miles of the state
   1-19  in which the nonresident student resides and who is admitted for
   1-20  the purpose of utilizing available instructional facilities. A
   1-21  <The> nonresident junior college <or public technical institute>
   1-22  student described in this section shall pay an amount equivalent to
   1-23  the amount charged a Texas student registered at a similar school
   1-24  in the state in which the nonresident student resides.  A
    2-1  nonresident public technical institute student described in this
    2-2  section shall pay the same tuition fee that the student would pay
    2-3  if the student were a resident of this state.  A <The> nonresident
    2-4  student described in this section shall pay equivalent fees and
    2-5  charges to those charged Texas students registered at a similar
    2-6  institution in the state in which the nonresident student resides,
    2-7  when such student registers at a Texas public senior upper level
    2-8  (those institutions offering only junior, senior, and graduate
    2-9  level programs) institution of higher education located within the
   2-10  Texas public junior college district or within the county in which
   2-11  the campus or extension center of the public technical institute is
   2-12  located or adjacent to such county and from which the nonresident
   2-13  student has graduated or completed 45 semester credit hours.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with tuition imposed
   2-15  for the fall 1995 semester.
   2-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.