1-1  By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1052
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 9, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 5, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Haywood
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 1052 as follows:
    1-8        On line 12 (committee printing page 1, line 23), after the
    1-9  word "residents" insert "if they began the program while stationed
   1-10  at an Air Force base in Texas."
   1-11                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-12                                AN ACT
   1-13  relating to tuition paid by air force personnel for certain courses
   1-14  at Midwestern State University.
   1-15        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-16        SECTION 1.  Section 54.058, Education Code, is amended by
   1-17  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-18        (h)  United States Air Force personnel stationed outside the
   1-19  State of Texas who are enrolled in the bachelor of science or
   1-20  master of science degree program in radiological sciences at
   1-21  Midwestern State University by instructional telecommunication will
   1-22  be entitled to pay tuition fees and other fees or charges provided
   1-23  for Texas residents.  In this subsection, "instructional
   1-24  telecommunication" means instruction delivered primarily by
   1-25  telecommunication technology, including open-channel television,
   1-26  cable television, closed-circuit television, low-power television,
   1-27  communication and/or direct-broadcast satellite, satellite master
   1-28  antenna system, microwave, videotape, videodisc, computer software,
   1-29  computer networks, and telephone lines.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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