By Haywood                                            S.B. No. 1052
       74R7719 E
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to tuition paid by air force personnel for certain courses
    1-3  at Midwestern State University.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.058, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
    1-7        (h)  United States Air Force personnel stationed outside the
    1-8  State of Texas who are enrolled in the bachelor of science or
    1-9  master of science degree program in radiological sciences at
   1-10  Midwestern State University by instructional telecommunication will
   1-11  be entitled to pay tuition fees and other fees or charges provided
   1-12  for Texas residents.  In this subsection, "instructional
   1-13  telecommunication" means instruction delivered primarily by
   1-14  telecommunication technology, including open-channel television,
   1-15  cable television, closed-circuit television, low power television,
   1-16  communication and/or direct broadcast satellite, satellite master
   1-17  antenna system, microwave, videotape, videodisc, computer software,
   1-18  computer networks, and telephone lines.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.