By Haggerty                                           H.B. No. 2014
       74R4218 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the tuition and fees charged to certain nonresident
    1-3  students holding athletic scholarships at general academic teaching
    1-4  institutions.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 54.0641 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 54.0641.  STUDENT ON PARTIAL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP.  (a)
    1-9  A nonresident student who holds an athletic scholarship provided by
   1-10  a general academic teaching institution that the student attends is
   1-11  entitled to pay the fees and charges required of a Texas resident
   1-12  without regard to the length of time the student has resided in
   1-13  this state if the scholarship provides the student with an amount
   1-14  of money for the term or semester that is less than the total
   1-15  amount required to pay:
   1-16              (1)  the amount of nonresident fees and charges for the
   1-17  term or semester that the student would pay if the student were
   1-18  required to pay nonresident fees and charges; and
   1-19              (2)  the amount that would be required to pay for room
   1-20  and board for the term or semester, computed as provided by
   1-21  Subsection (b).
   1-22        (b)  For purposes of this section, the amount that would be
   1-23  required to pay for room and board for a term or semester is:
   1-24              (1)  the minimum amount charged for the term or
    2-1  semester for room and board in student housing provided by the
    2-2  institution, if the institution the student attends provides
    2-3  student housing with meals; or
    2-4              (2)  the minimum amount charged for the term or
    2-5  semester for room and board in student housing provided by any
    2-6  general academic teaching institution in The University of Texas
    2-7  System, if the institution the student attends does not provide
    2-8  student housing with meals.
    2-9        (c)  In this section, "general academic teaching institution"
   2-10  has the  meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees and charges
   2-12  imposed for the fall semester of 1995.
   2-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.