1-1  By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 221
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 16, 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  9, Nays 0; January 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the waiver of tuition and fees for teachers attending
    1-9  federally funded teacher enhancement programs.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Section 54.212 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 54.212.  TEACHERS ATTENDING FEDERALLY FUNDED TEACHER
   1-14  ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS.  The governing board of an institution of
   1-15  higher education may waive tuition and fees for a teacher attending
   1-16  a federally funded teacher enhancement program.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.
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