1-1     By:  Solis, Flores (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)           H.B. No. 1820

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1997;

 1-3     April 22, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Finance; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the tuition charged to certain foreign students with

 1-9     financial need at certain components of the Texas State Technical

1-10     College System and at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Sections 54.060(b) and (d), Education Code, are

1-13     amended to read as follows:

1-14           (b)  The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this

1-15     chapter does not apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a

1-16     nation situated adjacent to Texas, who registers in any general

1-17     academic teaching institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) of

1-18     this code, or component of the Texas State Technical College System

1-19     in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign

1-20     student resides or who registers in Texas A&M

1-21     University--Kingsville or Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi,

1-22     and, except as provided by this subsection, who demonstrates a

1-23     financial need after the financial resources of the foreign student

1-24     and the student's family are considered.  The foreign student

1-25     described in this subsection [section] shall pay tuition equal to

1-26     that charged Texas residents under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 of

1-27     this code.  The coordinating board shall adopt rules governing the

1-28     determination of financial need of students under this subsection

1-29     and rules governing a pilot project to be established at general

1-30     academic teaching institutions and at components of the Texas State

1-31     Technical College System in counties that are not immediately

1-32     adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student resides.

1-33           (d)  The coordinating board shall adopt rules to determine

1-34     the number of students who may participate in the programs provided

1-35     by Subsections (b) and (c) of this section and the students who may

1-36     transfer from any general academic teaching institution or

1-37     component of the Texas State Technical College System in a county

1-38     immediately  adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student

1-39     resides to attend another [a] general academic teaching institution

1-40     or component of the Texas State Technical College System  to

1-41     complete a degree, certificate, or diploma or attend graduate

1-42     school.

1-43           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with tuition charged

1-44     for the 1997 fall semester.

1-45           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-46     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-47     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-48     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-49     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-50     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-51     passage, and it is so enacted.

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