1-1     By:  Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Galloway)     H.B. No. 1548

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1997;

 1-3     April 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Education; May 16, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;

 1-6     May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1548                By:  Galloway

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to tuition and fees for certain students registered in a

1-11     public junior college.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 130.003(b), Education Code, is amended to

1-14     read as follows:

1-15           (b)  To be eligible for and to receive a proportionate share

1-16     of the appropriation, a public junior college must:

1-17                 (1)  be certified as a public junior college as

1-18     prescribed in Section 61.063 of this code;

1-19                 (2)  offer a minimum of 24 semester hours of vocational

1-20     and/or terminal courses;

1-21                 (3)  have complied with all existing laws, rules, and

1-22     regulations governing the establishment and maintenance of public

1-23     junior colleges;

1-24                 (4)  collect, from each full-time and part-time student

1-25     enrolled, matriculation and other session fees in the amounts

1-26     required by law [Section 54.051 of this code, except, however, the

1-27     governing board of a public junior college district may waive the

1-28     difference in the rate of tuition for nonresident and resident

1-29     students for a person, and his dependents, who owns property which

1-30     is subject to ad valorem taxation by the junior college district];

1-31                 (5)  grant, when properly applied for, the scholarships

1-32     and tuition exemptions provided for in this code; and

1-33                 (6)  for a public junior college established on or

1-34     after September 1, 1986, levy and collect ad valorem taxes as

1-35     provided by law for the operation and maintenance of the public

1-36     junior college.

1-37           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is

1-38     amended by adding Section 130.0032 to read as follows:

1-39           Sec. 130.0032.  TUITION FOR STUDENTS RESIDING OUTSIDE OF

1-40     DISTRICT.  (a)  The governing board of a public junior college

1-41     district may allow a person who resides outside the district and

1-42     who owns property subject to ad valorem taxation by the district,

1-43     or a dependent of the person, to pay tuition at the rate applicable

1-44     to a student who resides in the district.

1-45           (b)  The governing board of a public junior college district

1-46     may allow a person who resides outside the district and in the

1-47     taxing district of a contiguous public junior college district to

1-48     pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student who

1-49     resides in the district.

1-50           (c)  The governing board of a public junior college district

1-51     may allow a person who resides outside the district to pay tuition

1-52     and fees at a rate less than the rate applicable to other persons

1-53     residing outside the district, but not less than the rate

1-54     applicable to a student who resides in the district, if the person:

1-55                 (1)  resides within the service area of the district;

1-56     and

1-57                 (2)  does not reside in an independent school district

1-58     that meets the criteria of the coordinating board for the

1-59     establishment of a junior college district under Section 130.013.

1-60           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with tuition and fees

1-61     charged for the 1997 fall semester.

1-62           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-63     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-64     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.

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