1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1491 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 26, 1995, 1-4 reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 10, 1-5 Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Haywood 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1491 as follows: 1-8 In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Section 51.306(q), 1-9 Education Code (introduced version, page 1, line 8; committee 1-10 printing page 1, line 43), strike "person" and substitute 1-11 "non-degree-seeking or non-certificate-seeking student". 1-12 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2 By: Haywood 1-13 Amend S.B. No. 1491 as follows: 1-14 In SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed Section 51.306(q), 1-15 Education Code (introduced version, page 1, lines 11 through 12; 1-16 committee printing page 1, lines 46-47), strike "for credit toward 1-17 a degree or certificate". 1-18 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 3 By: Haywood 1-19 Amend S.B. No. 1491 as follows: 1-20 In SECTION 2 of the bill, in proposed Section 54.067(a), 1-21 Education Code (introduced version, page 1, line 18; committee 1-22 printing page 1, line 53), insert ", under the condition that a 1-23 student under 55 years of age will not be precluded from enrolling 1-24 in a course for credit toward a degree or certificate" after 1-25 "chapter" and before ".". 1-26 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 4 By: Haywood 1-27 Amend S.B. No. 1491 as follows: 1-28 In SECTION 2 of the bill, following proposed Section 1-29 54.067(b), Education Code (introduced version, page 2, between 1-30 lines 3 and 4; committee printing page 2, between lines 1 and 2), 1-31 insert the following: 1-32 (c) The legislature in an appropriations act shall account 1-33 for the rates authorized by Subsection (a) in a way that does not 1-34 increase the general revenue appropriations to that institution. 1-35 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-36 AN ACT 1-37 relating to testing and remedial education of students 55 years of 1-38 age or older and to tuition and fees charged to those students at 1-39 public institutions of higher education. 1-40 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-41 SECTION 1. Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by 1-42 adding Subsection (q) to read as follows: 1-43 (q) An institution may exempt a person who will be 55 years 1-44 of age or older on the first class day of a term or semester from 1-45 the testing requirements imposed by this section as a condition for 1-46 enrollment during that term or semester in a course for credit 1-47 toward a degree or certificate. 1-48 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 1-49 amended by adding Section 54.067 to read as follows: 1-50 Sec. 54.067. STUDENTS 55 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. (a) An 1-51 institution of higher education may charge a student 55 years of 1-52 age or older tuition and fees at rates that are lower than the 1-53 rates otherwise provided by this chapter. The institution may set 1-54 additional qualifications that a student must meet to qualify for 1-55 tuition and fees at rates set under this section and may set 1-56 different rates for different programs, campuses, or courses. The 1-57 institution may set rates under this section for resident students, 1-58 nonresident students, or both, and may set different rates for 1-59 resident students and nonresident students. 1-60 (b) A tuition or fee rate set under this section must apply 1-61 uniformly to each student that meets the applicable qualifications 1-62 set by the institution to pay tuition or fees at that rate. 1-63 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-64 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-65 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-66 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-67 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-68 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted. 2-2 * * * * *