By Berlanga, Seaman, Luna H.B. No. 1629
75R6147 JSA-D
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.