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.