1-1  By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 694
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 1995; February 22, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  March 8, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 8, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the exemption from tuition of a resident student
    1-9  enrolled in the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 54.205, Education Code,
   1-12  is amended by adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
   1-13              (5)  "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
   1-14  assigned by Section 61.003, except that the term includes the
   1-15  Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 131.005, Education Code,
   1-17  is amended to read as follows:
   1-18        (a)  A Texas resident student enrolled in the institute
   1-19  <shall pay tuition at the rate provided by law for enrollment at
   1-20  Howard County Junior College and> is <not> exempt from tuition fees
   1-21  under Section 54.205 of this code.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
   1-23  of 1995.
   1-24        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-29  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-30  passage, and it is so enacted.
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