By Telford H.B. No. 1384
75R5174 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the tuition charged to certain nonresident students
1-3 registered at certain upper-level 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 54.060(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by [in] this
1-9 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
1-10 of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma and who registers
1-11 in a public upper-level institution of higher education, two-year
1-12 institution in the Lamar University System, Texas public junior
1-13 college, or public technical institute that is situated in a county
1-14 immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident student
1-15 resides. The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by [in] this
1-16 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
1-17 of New Mexico or Oklahoma and who registers in a public technical
1-18 institute that is situated in a county that is within 100 miles of
1-19 the state in which the nonresident student resides and who is
1-20 admitted for the purpose of utilizing available instructional
1-21 facilities. The nonresident student [at a two-year institution in
1-22 the Lamar University System, public junior college, or public
1-23 technical institute] described in this subsection [section] shall
1-24 pay an amount equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student
2-1 registered at a similar school in the state in which the
2-2 nonresident student resides. For purposes of this subsection,
2-3 "public upper-level institution of higher education" means an
2-4 institution of higher education that offers only junior-level and
2-5 senior-level courses or only junior-level, senior-level, and
2-6 graduate-level courses. [The nonresident student at a public junior
2-7 college or public technical institute described in this section
2-8 shall pay equivalent fees and charges to those charged Texas
2-9 students registered at a similar institution in the state in which
2-10 the nonresident student resides, when such student registers at a
2-11 Texas public senior upper level (those institutions offering only
2-12 junior, senior, and graduate level programs) institution of higher
2-13 education located within the Texas public junior college district
2-14 or within the county in which the public technical institute is
2-15 located or adjacent to such county and from which the nonresident
2-16 student has graduated or completed 45 semester credit hours.]
2-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with tuition charged
2-18 for the 1997 fall semester.
2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.