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.