By Solis H.B. No. 1820
75R4720 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 components of the Texas State Technical
1-4 College System.
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, and, except as provided by this subsection,
1-16 who demonstrates a financial need after the financial resources of
1-17 the foreign student and the student's family are considered. The
1-18 foreign student described in this subsection [section] shall pay
1-19 tuition equal to that charged Texas residents under Sections 54.051
1-20 and 54.0512 of this code. The coordinating board shall adopt rules
1-21 governing the determination of financial need of students under
1-22 this subsection and rules governing a pilot project to be
1-23 established at general academic teaching institutions and at
1-24 components of the Texas State Technical College System in counties
2-1 that are not immediately adjacent to the nation in which the
2-2 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.