By: Montford S.B. No. 694
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the exemption from tuition of a resident student
1-2 enrolled in the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.205, Education Code,
1-5 is amended by adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
1-6 (5) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
1-7 assigned by Section 61.003, except that the term includes the
1-8 Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
1-9 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 131.005, Education Code,
1-10 is amended to read as follows:
1-11 (a) A Texas resident student enrolled in the institute
1-12 <shall pay tuition at the rate provided by law for enrollment at
1-13 Howard County Junior College and> is <not> exempt from tuition fees
1-14 under Section 54.205 of this code.
1-15 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
1-16 of 1995.
1-17 SECTION 4. 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.