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 for lower division courses at a
1-15 community or junior college having a partnership agreement pursuant
1-16 to Subchapter N, Chapter 51, of this code, with an upper-level
1-17 university and both institutions are located in the county
1-18 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
1-19 resides, or who registers in Texas A&M University--Kingsville or
1-20 Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi, and, except as provided by
1-21 this subsection, who demonstrates a financial need after the
1-22 financial resources of the foreign student and the student's family
1-23 are considered. The foreign student described in this subsection
1-24 [section] shall pay tuition equal to that charged Texas residents
2-1 under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 of this code. The coordinating
2-2 board shall adopt rules governing the determination of financial
2-3 need of students under this subsection and rules governing a pilot
2-4 project to be established at general academic teaching institutions
2-5 and at components of the Texas State Technical College System in
2-6 counties that are not immediately adjacent to the nation in which
2-7 the foreign student resides.
2-8 (d) The coordinating board shall adopt rules to determine
2-9 the number of students who may participate in the programs provided
2-10 by Subsections (b) and (c) of this section and the students who may
2-11 transfer from any general academic teaching institution or
2-12 component of the Texas State Technical College System in a county
2-13 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
2-14 resides to attend another [a] general academic teaching institution
2-15 or component of the Texas State Technical College System to
2-16 complete a degree, certificate, or diploma or attend graduate
2-17 school.
2-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with tuition charged
2-19 for the 1997 fall semester.
2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-26 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1820 was passed by the House on April
17, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1820 on May 30, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1820 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 28, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays
2.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor