1-1     By:  Kamel (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                      H.B. No. 65

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;

 1-3     April 27, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Finance; May 17, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Ratliff

 1-7     Amend H.B. 65, as engrossed, by adding a new SECTION 2 to read as

 1-8     follows:

 1-9     SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with tuition and fees due

1-10     for the spring semester of 1998.

1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-12                                   AN ACT

1-13     relating to increases in tuition and fees  charged by public

1-14     institutions of higher education.

1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-16           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is

1-17     amended by adding Section 54.009 to read as follows:

1-18           Sec. 54.009.  INCREASE IN TUITION RATE OR FEES.  An

1-19     institution of higher education that sets the tuition rates and

1-20     fees for a semester or summer term and permits a student to

1-21     register for that semester or summer term may not increase the

1-22     tuition rate or fees charged that student for that semester or

1-23     summer term after the student registers regardless of whether that

1-24     student has paid the tuition and fees for that semester or summer

1-25     term.

1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with tuition and fees

1-27     due for the fall semester of 1997.

1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.

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