By Driver                                              H.B. No. 158

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to repealing the exemption of certain foreign students

 1-3     from paying tuition charged by public institutions of higher

 1-4     education.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 54.207, Education Code, is repealed.

 1-7           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only

 1-8     to tuition that becomes due beginning with the fall semester in

 1-9     1997, except that a student allowed to register or preregister for

1-10     the 1997 fall semester before the effective date of this Act and

1-11     granted an exemption from tuition fees for that semester under

1-12     Section 54.207, Education Code, before the effective date of this

1-13     Act is entitled to the exemption for the 1997 fall semester.

1-14     Tuition for a semester or term before the 1997 fall semester is

1-15     governed by the law in effect at the time the tuition became due,

1-16     and that law is continued in effect for that purpose only.

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.