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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