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.