SRC-SLL H.B. 1384 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 1384
By: Telford (Ratliff)
Finance
5-7-97
Engrossed


DIGEST 

Currently, the Education Code provides that a nonresident student who is a
resident of a state adjacent to Texas and who registers in any Texas
public junior college or public technical school located in a county
adjacent to the nonresident's home state shall pay tuition in an amount
equal to the amount charged a Texas resident registered in a similar
school in the nonresident's state.  This bill will include public
upper-level institutions of higher education among those institutions not
applying the nonresident tuition fee to a nonresident student residing in
bordering states. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, H.B. 1384 includes public upper-level institutions of higher
education among those institutions not applying the nonresident tuition
fee to a nonresident student residing in bordering states. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 54.060(a), Education Code, to provide that the
nonresident tuition fee prescribed by this chapter does not apply to a
nonresident student who is a resident of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico,
or Oklahoma and who registers in a public upper-level institution of
higher education that is situated in a county immediately adjacent to the
state in which the nonresident student resides.  Defines "public
upper-level institution of higher education."  Deletes existing text
regarding equivalent fees and charges.  Makes nonsubstantive changes. 

SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies beginning with tuition charged
for the 1997 fall semester. 

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.