1-1 By: Stiles, Raymond, Kamel H.B. No. 8
1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)
1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 20, 1997;
1-4 March 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-5 Finance; April 25, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-6 Yeas 10, Nays 2; April 25, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the extension of the full faith and credit of the state
1-10 to support the Texas tomorrow fund.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 54.619(g), Education Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (g) If in any fiscal year there is not enough money in the
1-15 fund to pay the tuition and required fees of the institution of
1-16 higher education in which a beneficiary enrolls or the appropriate
1-17 portion of the tuition and required fees of the private or
1-18 independent institution of higher education in which the
1-19 beneficiary enrolls as provided by the prepaid tuition contract,
1-20 the comptroller shall transfer to the fund out of the first money
1-21 coming into the state treasury not otherwise appropriated by the
1-22 constitution [the legislature may appropriate to the fund] the
1-23 amount necessary for the board to pay the applicable amount of
1-24 tuition and required fees of the institution.
1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the date on which the
1-26 constitutional amendment proposed by H.J.R. No. 8, 75th
1-27 Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, takes effect. If that
1-28 amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect.
1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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