By Delisi H.B. No. 2394 75R7545 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to course fees charged for certain courses at public 1-3 institutions of higher education. 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 exemptions provided by Subsections (a) and (b) do 1-8 not apply to a course fee or laboratory fee charged by an 1-9 institution of higher education to cover the special costs 1-10 associated with a particular course in: 1-11 (1) truck driving; or 1-12 (2) aircraft flight training. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with fees charged by 1-14 an institution of higher education for the 1997 fall semester. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.