1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to course fees charged for certain courses by public

 1-3     junior college districts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.203, Education Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

 1-7           (g)  The governing board of a junior college district may

 1-8     provide that the exemptions provided by Subsections (a)  and (b) do

 1-9     not apply to a course fee or training fee charged a student by the

1-10     junior college district to cover the flight time costs associated

1-11     with a course in aircraft flight training, to the extent those

1-12     costs are incurred by a student:

1-13                 (1)  who does not have a private pilot rating; or

1-14                 (2)  who has a private pilot rating but is not actively

1-15     seeking to fulfill the requirements of the Federal Aviation

1-16     Administration for an additional certification or rating.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees charged by a

1-18     public junior college district for the 1997 fall semester.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2394 was passed by the House on April

         11, 1997, by a non-record vote; that the House refused to concur in

         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2394 on May 24, 1997, and requested

         the appointment of a conference committee to consider the

         differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the

         conference committee report on H.B. No. 2394 on May 31, 1997, by a

         non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2394 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 21, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays

         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference

         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and

         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.

         2394 on May 31, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor