By Kubiak H.B. No. 2601 74R597 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the effect of residence status on registration in 1-3 academic courses at public institutions of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 51.935 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.935. REGISTRATION IN ACADEMIC COURSES. (a) An 1-8 institution of higher education, as that term is defined by Section 1-9 61.003 of this code, shall give priority to residents in 1-10 registering students in academic courses offered by the 1-11 institution. 1-12 (b) The institution may not register a nonresident student 1-13 in a particular academic course during a particular semester unless 1-14 all resident students who have communicated to the institution an 1-15 interest in registering in that course are first given the 1-16 opportunity to register for that course. 1-17 (c) Each governing board of an institution of higher 1-18 education shall adopt rules necessary to carry out this section. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with registration for 1-20 the spring semester 1996. The change in law made by this Act does 1-21 not affect registration for a semester or term preceding the spring 1-22 semester 1996. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.