By Kamel                                                H.B. No. 65

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to increases in tuition and fees  charged by public

 1-3     institutions of higher education.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 54.009 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 54.009.  INCREASE IN TUITION RATE OR FEES.  An

 1-8     institution of higher education that sets the tuition rates and

 1-9     fees for a semester or summer term and permits a student to

1-10     register for that semester or summer term may not increase the

1-11     tuition rate or fees charged that student for that semester or

1-12     summer term after the student registers regardless of whether that

1-13     student has paid the tuition and fees for that semester or summer

1-14     term.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with tuition and fees

1-16     due for the fall semester of 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.