By Zaffirini S.B. No. 221 Substitute the following for S.B. No. 221: By Rodriguez C.S.S.B. No. 221 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the waiver of tuition and fees for students attending 1-3 courses that are fully funded by federal or other sources. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 54.212 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.212. STUDENTS ENROLLED IN FULLY FUNDED COURSES. The 1-8 governing board of an institution of higher education may waive 1-9 tuition and fees for students attending courses that are fully 1-10 funded by federal or other sources. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.