1-1  By:  Hirschi, Finnell, et al.                         H.B. No. 2068
    1-2       (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)
    1-3        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1995;
    1-4  April 19, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-5  Education; April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-6  vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to tuition paid by air force personnel for certain courses
   1-10  at Midwestern State University.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 54.058, Education Code, is amended by
   1-13  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-14        (h)  United States Air Force personnel stationed outside the
   1-15  State of Texas who are enrolled in the bachelor of science or
   1-16  master of science degree program in radiological sciences at
   1-17  Midwestern State University by instructional telecommunication will
   1-18  be entitled to pay tuition fees and other fees or charges provided
   1-19  for Texas residents if they began the program while stationed at an
   1-20  Air Force base in Texas.  In this subsection, "instructional
   1-21  telecommunication" means instruction delivered primarily by
   1-22  telecommunication technology, including open-channel television,
   1-23  cable television, closed-circuit television, low power television,
   1-24  communication and/or direct broadcast satellite, satellite master
   1-25  antenna system, microwave, videotape, videodisc, computer software,
   1-26  computer networks, and telephone lines.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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