By:  Barrientos                                         S.B. No. 52
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to exempting certain persons from tuition, fees, and
    1-2  charges at public institutions of higher education.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 54.203, Education Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The governing board of each institution of higher
    1-7  education shall exempt the following persons from the payment of
    1-8  all dues, fees, and charges, including fees for correspondence
    1-9  courses but excluding property deposit fees, student services fees,
   1-10  and any fees or charges for lodging, board, or clothing, provided
   1-11  the persons seeking the exemptions <demonstrate financial need as
   1-12  defined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board,> were
   1-13  citizens of Texas at the time they entered the services
   1-14  indicated<,> and have resided in Texas for at least the period of
   1-15  12 months before the date of registration:
   1-16              (1)  all nurses and honorably discharged members of the
   1-17  armed forces of the United States who served during the
   1-18  Spanish-American War or during World War I;
   1-19              (2)  all nurses, members of the Women's Army Auxiliary
   1-20  Corps, members of the Women's Auxiliary Volunteer Emergency
   1-21  Service, and all honorably discharged members of the armed forces
   1-22  of the United States who served during World War II except those
   1-23  who were discharged from service because they were over the age of
    2-1  38 or because of a personal request on the part of the person that
    2-2  he be discharged from service;
    2-3              (3)  all honorably discharged men and women of the
    2-4  armed forces of the United States who served during the national
    2-5  emergency which began on June 27, 1950, and which is referred to as
    2-6  the Korean War; and
    2-7              (4)  all persons who were honorably discharged from the
    2-8  armed forces of the United States after serving on active military
    2-9  duty, excluding training, for more than 180 days during the Cold
   2-10  War which began on the date of the termination of the national
   2-11  emergency cited in Subdivision (3) of this subsection.
   2-12        SECTION 2.  This Act applies to tuition, fees, and charges
   2-13  beginning with the fall semester 1995.
   2-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.