By Stiles, Raymond, Kamel                          H.B. No. 8

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the extension of the full faith and credit of the state

 1-3     to support the Texas tomorrow fund.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.619(g), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (g)  If in any fiscal year there is not enough money in the

 1-8     fund to pay the tuition and required fees of the institution of

 1-9     higher education in which a beneficiary enrolls or the appropriate

1-10     portion of the tuition and required fees of the private or

1-11     independent institution of higher education in which the

1-12     beneficiary enrolls as provided by the prepaid tuition contract,

1-13     the comptroller shall transfer to the fund out of the first money

1-14     coming into the state treasury not otherwise appropriated by the

1-15     constitution [the legislature may appropriate to the fund] the

1-16     amount necessary for the board to pay the applicable amount of

1-17     tuition and required fees of the institution.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on the date on which the

1-19     constitutional amendment proposed by ____ J.R.  No.___, 75th

1-20     Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, takes effect.  If that

1-21     amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

 3-1                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1

 3-2     Amend HB 8, Page 1, Line 19 by replacing the first blank with an

 3-3     "H" and the second blank with an "8".

 3-4                                                                 Telford