By Berlanga, Seaman, Luna                             H.B. No. 1629

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the tuition charged to certain foreign students with

 1-3     financial need at certain public institutions of higher education.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.060(b), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this

 1-8     chapter does not apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a

 1-9     nation situated adjacent to Texas, who registers in any general

1-10     academic teaching institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) of

1-11     this code, in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which

1-12     the foreign student resides or who registers in Texas A&M

1-13     University--Corpus Christi or Texas A&M University--Kingsville,

1-14     and, except as provided by this subsection, who demonstrates a

1-15     financial need after the financial resources of the foreign student

1-16     and the student's family are considered.  The foreign student

1-17     described in this subsection [section] shall pay tuition equal to

1-18     that charged Texas residents under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 of

1-19     this code.  The coordinating board shall adopt rules governing the

1-20     determination of financial need of students under this subsection

1-21     and rules governing a pilot project to be established at general

1-22     academic teaching institutions in counties that are not immediately

1-23     adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student resides.

1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with tuition charged

 2-1     for the 1997 fall semester.

 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.