By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 221 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the waiver of tuition and fees for teachers attending 1-2 federally funded teacher enhancement programs. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 54.212 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 54.212. TEACHERS ATTENDING FEDERALLY FUNDED TEACHER 1-7 ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS. The governing board of an institution of 1-8 higher education may waive tuition and fees for a teacher attending 1-9 a federally funded teacher enhancement program. 1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.