By Solis, Flores H.B. No. 1820
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 components of the Texas State Technical
1-4 College System and at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 54.060(b) and (d), Education Code, are
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this
1-9 chapter does not apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a
1-10 nation situated adjacent to Texas, who registers in any general
1-11 academic teaching institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) of
1-12 this code, or component of the Texas State Technical College System
1-13 in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign
1-14 student resides or who registers in Texas A&M
1-15 University--Kingsville or Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi,
1-16 and, except as provided by this subsection, who demonstrates a
1-17 financial need after the financial resources of the foreign student
1-18 and the student's family are considered. The foreign student
1-19 described in this subsection [section] shall pay tuition equal to
1-20 that charged Texas residents under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 of
1-21 this code. The coordinating board shall adopt rules governing the
1-22 determination of financial need of students under this subsection
1-23 and rules governing a pilot project to be established at general
1-24 academic teaching institutions and at components of the Texas State
2-1 Technical College System in counties that are not immediately
2-2 adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student resides.
2-3 (d) The coordinating board shall adopt rules to determine
2-4 the number of students who may participate in the programs provided
2-5 by Subsections (b) and (c) of this section and the students who may
2-6 transfer from any general academic teaching institution or
2-7 component of the Texas State Technical College System in a county
2-8 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
2-9 resides to attend another [a] general academic teaching institution
2-10 or component of the Texas State Technical College System to
2-11 complete a degree, certificate, or diploma or attend graduate
2-12 school.
2-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with tuition charged
2-14 for the 1997 fall semester.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.