MMA H.B. 1629 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


HIGHER EDUCATION
H.B. 1629
By: Berlanga
4-17-97
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND 

H.B. 1792, passed during the 74th Legislative Session, provided that the
foreign student tuition fee not apply to foreign students who reside in a
nation adjacent to Texas and who register in a Texas public college or
university in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which the
foreign student resides.  This bill also included foreign student tuition
fee exemption for students registering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. 

PURPOSE

H.B. 1629 would add certain foreign students at Texas A&M
University-Corpus Christi in the foreign student tuition fee exemption. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 54.060(b), Education Code, by including Texas
A&M University-Corpus Christi as an institution in which the foreign
student tuition fee prescribed by this chapter does not apply to a foreign
student, if they are a resident of a nation situated adjacent to Texas. 

SECTION 2. Effective beginning with tuition charged for fall semester,
1997. 

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.