By Delisi                                             H.B. No. 2214

         75R7547 CAG-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to fees for correspondence courses for certain veterans

 1-3     and the children of certain veterans.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.545(c), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  Subchapters B and D do not apply to a fee charged under

 1-8     this section, except to a fee for a correspondence  course taken by

 1-9     a student who would qualify for an exemption from tuition under

1-10     Section 54.203.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.