1-1     By:  Rangel, Kamel (Senate Sponsor - Truan)           H.B. No. 1989

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;

 1-3     April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Education; May 8, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to college student exchange programs with other nations.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 54.060(c), Education Code, is amended to

1-11     read as follows:

1-12           (c)  The coordinating board by rule shall establish a program

1-13     with the United Mexican States and with Canada  for the exchange of

1-14     students and shall establish programs with other nations for the

1-15     exchange of students to the extent practicable. The foreign student

1-16     tuition fee prescribed in this chapter does not apply to a foreign

1-17     student participating in an [the] exchange program established

1-18     under this section.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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