1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 179
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 11, 1995; January 18, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 January 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 8, Nays 1; January 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to tuition fees at public upper-level institutions of
1-9 higher education for students residing in bordering states.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.060, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by <in> this
1-14 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
1-15 of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma and who registers
1-16 in any Texas public upper-level institution of higher education,
1-17 public junior college, or public technical institute, as defined by
1-18 Section 61.003 of this code, that is situated in a county
1-19 immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident student
1-20 resides. The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by <in> this
1-21 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
1-22 of New Mexico or Oklahoma and who registers in a public technical
1-23 institute that is situated in a county that is within 100 miles of
1-24 the state in which the nonresident student resides and who is
1-25 admitted for the purpose of utilizing available instructional
1-26 facilities. A <The> nonresident <junior college or public
1-27 technical institute> student described by <in> this section shall
1-28 pay an amount equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student
1-29 registered at a similar school in the state in which the
1-30 nonresident student resides. <The nonresident student described in
1-31 this section shall pay equivalent fees and charges to those charged
1-32 Texas students registered at a similar institution in the state in
1-33 which the nonresident student resides, when such student registers
1-34 at a Texas public senior upper level (those institutions offering
1-35 only junior, senior, and graduate level programs) institution of
1-36 higher education located within the Texas public junior college
1-37 district or within the county in which the public technical
1-38 institute is located or adjacent to such county and from which the
1-39 nonresident student has graduated or completed 45 semester credit
1-40 hours.>
1-41 SECTION 2. Section 61.003, Education Code, is amended by
1-42 adding Subsection (16) to read as follows:
1-43 (16) "Public upper-level institution of higher
1-44 education" means an institution of higher education that offers
1-45 only junior-level, senior-level, and graduate-level courses.
1-46 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies
1-47 beginning with tuition fees due for the fall semester of 1995.
1-48 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-53 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-54 passage, and it is so enacted.
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