By Rangel H.B. No. 1989
75R5537 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.