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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