1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to college student exchange programs with other nations.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 54.060(c), Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (c)  The coordinating board by rule shall establish a program

 1-7     with the United Mexican States and with Canada  for the exchange of

 1-8     students and shall establish programs with other nations for the

 1-9     exchange of students to the extent practicable. The foreign student

1-10     tuition fee prescribed in this chapter does not apply to a foreign

1-11     student participating in an [the] exchange program established

1-12     under this section.

1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1989 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1989 was passed by the Senate on May

         10, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor