1-1 By: Telford (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 1384
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;
1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the tuition charged to certain nonresident students
1-9 registered at certain upper-level public institutions of higher
1-10 education.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 54.060(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by [in] this
1-15 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
1-16 of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma and who registers
1-17 in a public upper-level institution of higher education, two-year
1-18 institution in the Lamar University System, Texas public junior
1-19 college, or public technical institute that is situated in a county
1-20 immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident student
1-21 resides. The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by [in] this
1-22 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
1-23 of New Mexico or Oklahoma and who registers in a public technical
1-24 institute that is situated in a county that is within 100 miles of
1-25 the state in which the nonresident student resides and who is
1-26 admitted for the purpose of utilizing available instructional
1-27 facilities. The nonresident student [at a two-year institution in
1-28 the Lamar University System, public junior college, or public
1-29 technical institute] described in this subsection [section] shall
1-30 pay an amount equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student
1-31 registered at a similar school in the state in which the
1-32 nonresident student resides. For purposes of this subsection,
1-33 "public upper-level institution of higher education" means an
1-34 institution of higher education that offers only junior-level and
1-35 senior-level courses or only junior-level, senior-level, and
1-36 graduate-level courses. [The nonresident student at a public junior
1-37 college or public technical institute described in this section
1-38 shall pay equivalent fees and charges to those charged Texas
1-39 students registered at a similar institution in the state in which
1-40 the nonresident student resides, when such student registers at a
1-41 Texas public senior upper level (those institutions offering only
1-42 junior, senior, and graduate level programs) institution of higher
1-43 education located within the Texas public junior college district
1-44 or within the county in which the public technical institute is
1-45 located or adjacent to such county and from which the nonresident
1-46 student has graduated or completed 45 semester credit hours.]
1-47 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with tuition charged
1-48 for the 1997 fall semester.
1-49 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-50 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-54 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-55 passage, and it is so enacted.
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