By Delisi                                       H.B. No. 2394

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                                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.